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Newsletter 6, July 2012
Dear Panarians, This Newsletter deals with: website improvements Gift Vouchers available online PANARY’s business Facebook page new booking system for Basic and British During the last year I have continued to put much effort into PANARY’s website. The photos are generally improved, and all course descriptions now feature the daily programme (hour by hour) for [...]
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Newsletter 5, Feb 2012
Dear Panarians, This brief newsletter is to inform you about additional courses being added to the annual programme in order to repeat those popular courses that have sold out. Booking began for 2012 in November and by new year the February courses had all filled. Hence there have been new courses laid on in March [...]
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Firing a cold oven
FIRING INFREQUENTLY – A COLD OVEN Life is easy with a wood-fired masonry oven when your routine involves much baking and daily firing of the oven. The masonry and the whole structure stays permanently warm and hence the daily firing is a topping up affair, with less time taken, less fuel used. This article concerns [...]
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Large ovens: separate furnace or fire on the floor?
When customers for the large ovens are finding out about technical details before they place an order, it is clear that they are often confused about the position of the chimney, and the basic simplicity of an oven that is fired on its floor. The basic oven that is fired on its floor is the [...]
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What’s special about wood-fired ovens?
Masonry ovens Often I am asked – what is it that is so special about masonry ovens? When my interest in baking grew to an itching urge to find out all I could within a few years so that I could set up my own bakery, these ovens were always called “brick ovens” by the [...]
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Newsletter 4, November 2011
Dear PANARIANS all, The 2012 programme is now on PANARY’s website for all to see. I wish to draw to your attention some of its features and changes. The main news item is the price reduction of all two-day courses. As an aftermath of the recession, and now during this current and prolonged austerity period, [...]
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Newsletter, November 2010
Dear Panarians, All PANARY course dates for 2011 are now on the website – www.panary.co.uk – and with this newsletter I can point out a few changes. Two theme courses have been deleted: Flatbreads and the two-day Sponges & pre-ferments. Students can still encounter a range of flatbreads by attending the Italian and Wood-fired Oven [...]
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Newsletter, July 2010
The big thing to crow about here is the recently renovated PANARY website. Get along to www.panary.co.uk , and have a bit of a click around, and see if you agree that I am now entirely modernised. New course this year (2010 programme) is Sponges & Pre-ferments. While this course really should be thought of [...]
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Read Paul’s views on “craft”, as they appeared recently in two published articles
Educator Profile - appearing in the monthly newsletter of Slow Food UK, September, 2009 Master artisan baker and Slow Food member Paul Merry met with Catherine and Henry on their trip to visit the Dorset convivium. Paul has been involved with craft baking and masonry ovens for over thirty years, and has been teaching courses [...]
Newsletter 7, October 2012