Saturday, December 12, 11am at the Jaquith

For more than 25 years, Jules and Helen Rabin took flour, water, leavening, salt, stone and fire, made bread and forged a wholly new life for themselves in Marshfield. They built their original wood-fired bread oven with their own hands, using 70 tons of brick, local fieldstone and sand, and went on to bake uncounted loaves leavened exclusively with a common sourdough starter they imported from California, and have maintained for 40 years. With those means, and their own ideas of making a good life, the couple built a business that supported their family in modest Vermont style. In the process, they gained a strong following of devoted customers, and rich acclaim as pioneering artisan bread-bakers … among the first in Vermont. You counted yourself lucky if you got to pick up a loaf fresh from that morning’s baking.

Come hear the Rabins discuss their system of bread-making, the lifestyle that went with it, and how they turned a gastronomic and social ideal that came to them while visiting France forty-five years ago, into a bread-making life bon comme le pain.

The Jaquith Public Library is located just off Rte 2 in Marshfield Village in the Old Schoolhouse Common. Call for more information or visit our website for a complete listing of our programs; www.jaquithpubliclibrary.org.

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