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Wealden Times | WT176 | October 2016 | Kitchen & Bathroom supplement inside

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Food<br />

The Staff<br />

Above: The master at work Above right: Flour<br />

is dusted over proving loaves before baking<br />

Below: Emmanuel periodically checks on the<br />

loaves in the oven<br />

of life<br />

Photographs: David Merewether Styling & Words: Helen Barton<br />

Meet internationally acclaimed baker, author of three titles and<br />

inspirational teacher extraordinaire, Emmanuel Hadjiandreou.<br />

<strong>Wealden</strong> <strong>Times</strong> visited The Crown in Hastings where the floury<br />

magic happens on a daily basis, picked up a few age-old skills and<br />

came away with a couple of recipes<br />

Sat on a rooftop terrace drinking flat whites, we talk bread. Think beyond<br />

the eternally identical white-sliced blocks in plastic packaging. This<br />

is bread in all its glory. Hand-crafted, kneaded to perfection, proved,<br />

slashed, baked and savoured. These careful hand-crafting hands belong to<br />

Emmanuel Hadjiandreou, or Emmanuel The Baker as I now like to call him. <br />

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