The Foodbod Pod: Episode 7 - Braiding & Breaking Bread

Elaine “Foodbod” Boddy presents the seventh episode of the Foodbod Pod in which she and David Treadway meet Anne Iarchy and Karine Vignelles who discuss their food influences and deliver a lesson in how to braid challah dough. We also hear from members of the Sourdough with Foodbod Facebook group.

Anne describes the food she grew up with in Belgium and the various influences from her travels and time living in several countries before she settled in the UK and how she plans her week buying and cooking for one. She also discusses different options for making challah, the traditional bread prepared and eaten in Jewish households on Shabbat and on special occasions. Anne demonstrates how to braid the dough for a traditional challah shape, for small challah rolls topped with seeds and even for special shapes, producing a challah E for Elaine.

Meanwhile, Karine Vignelles discusses her inspirations from her French upbringing and how her husband’s Algerian heritage influences the ingredients they source and the food they prepare at home and her belief is respecting each other’s cultures and traditions.

Members of Sourdough with Foodbod, Elaine’s sourdough baking group on Facebook offer their top tips for home cooking and baking and we hear from fellow “foodbodder” Phil Russell who is in the process of opening a small sourdough bakery with his wife as their “retirement” project in their new home in Spain.

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