A long time ago I decided that stand mixers looked cool. So I got one for Christmas. When I got it home I realized it was largely for baking and I couldn’t bake. So I learned. I started with bread and rarely strayed. Bread baking became something of a rabbit hole. I spent years baking and learning.

Sure, you can bake a nice loaf of bread with all purpose flour and Fleischmann's yeast, but how much fun is that? Not that I became obsessed with bread baking, but at one point I had 16 different types of flour in my pantry, and wild yeast is much more fun than Fleischmann's!