EVENT: Asheville Artisan Bread Bakers’ Festival
The spirit of the local bakery is still alive and well in Asheville, NC, and this Saturday the many regional bread-makers will get a chance to show their stuff. The 4th Annual Asheville Artisan Bread Bakers’ Festival will showcase the artisan breads of 15 Asheville area bakeries.
This is a great event if you just love the smell and taste of fresh-baked breads (which you can, of course, sample along with local fresh cheeses, dipping oils and spreads). It’s also great if you want to learn how to bake breads. There are classes on whole grain bread techniques, classic French breads and quick breads.
Peter Reinhart, author of The Bread Baker’s Apprentice, will also be on hand and will host a couple of classes. “Asheville and its surrounding area, with a very small population, supports more artisan bakeries than most states. The bakeries are all small but truly artisan in the purest sense of the word,” Reinhart said in a press release about the festival.
The afternoon workshops and lectures, to be held at various locations around Asheville, are all open to the public. Admission is free to all events, but space at the work-shops is limited to visitors who have bought a loaf of bread in the morning.
The festival is sponsored by the local bakeries, the Bread Bakers Guild of America, Greenlife Grocery, and the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project.
What: Asheville Artisan Bread Bakers’ Festival
When: Saturday, March 29, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Where: Greenlife Grocery Community Center
70 Merrimon Avenue
Asheville , NC 28801
(followed in the afternoon by classes at various locations)
Find out more: (828) 683-2902
D**n, and I was in Asheville that weekend! Wish I had known about this. My wife would *really* have loved it, too. Will there be more events like this this summer or fall?