Local artisan bakers are gearing up for the seventh Asheville Artisan Bread Bakers Festival this Saturday, April 2. This two-part event begins with a bread tasting and sale at the Greenlife Grocery in downtown Asheville from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., followed by hands-on workshops and lectures from noon until 6 p.m.
The featured bakers at this year’s event are Didier Rosada from Uptown Bakers, near Washington, D.C., and Lionel Vatinet from La Farm Bakery in Cary, N.C. Rosada and Vatinet are both certified master bakers and have coached the gold-medal winning American teams in La Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie, a world baking competition. Both have also been instructors at the San Fransisco Baking Institute and continue to be highly respected teachers, consultants and writers.
In addition to Rosada and Vatinet, the festival will feature presentations by Peter Reinhart, well-known author, baker and teacher at Johnson and Wales University, and Jennifer Lapidus, the director of the North Carolina Organic Bread Flour Project.
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