As I dive deeper and deeper into the culinary world, I’ve come to appreciate the belittled bakers of small, unremarkable bakeries all over. They may only work in the corner bakery and putting out common pastries, but each, all on their own are very talented. It took years of experience and schooling to consistently produce these little delights for consumers like us. We may somedays walk into a cafe’ or bakery and find their selections, mundane but if we were to try and replicate these “mundane” pieces, we’d probably come up short. Without much experience I doubt that anyone could make a moist, fluffy, aromatic loaf of simply white bread. So here’s to you bakers out there, I commend your skills.

(this is of course for bakers who make things from scratch. defrosting prepared pastries or throwing ingredient into a machine that does all the work for you… I do that at work everyday… there’s not effort in it and I don’t think it calls for much praise.)