{"id":191,"date":"2008-09-11T11:42:06","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T15:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/?p=191"},"modified":"2008-09-11T11:42:06","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T15:42:06","slug":"i-lied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/i-lied\/","title":{"rendered":"I lied"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d be remiss to not point out this piece<\/a> from yesterday’s NYT, on the boom in . . . wait for it . . . organic\/artisanal\/small-batch wheat farming. Hello, New York publishers! This is so money! Where is my book deal??<\/p>\n

Oh right. I haven’t finished the proposal. Right.<\/p>\n

Anyway. The piece (which is focused on the revival of small-scale wheat farming in upstate New York) notes that small-batch wheat is hard to work with. Flavor, moisture, and gluten content can vary from season to season, posing a particular challenge to bakers, whose craft often relies on finely calibrated measurements to create a consistent muffin or loaf of bread.<\/p>\n

This made me flash back to early this summer, when I picked up a plastic cup of Island Wheat<\/a> at the 25th anniversary party for KK Fiske<\/a>–the first I’d had in a while–and was surprised by how different it tasted. Frankly, it wasn’t as good as I remembered: it seemed thinner, more mass-market in flavor. It may well be that they changed the recipe;*\u00a0I switched to the Rustic Ale and consequently, unsurprisingly, forgot to ask. But when I mentioned it to Leah she pointed out that it could just as well be a reflection of a particular crop.<\/p>\n

How long is it going to be, I wonder, before people start talking about the terroir<\/a> of beer?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

* T<\/a><\/span>his guy seems to agree<\/a>\u00a0and offers some insight; I also, fwiw, noted the weird “metallic taste.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’d be remiss to not point out this piece from yesterday’s NYT, on the boom in . . . wait for it . . . organic\/artisanal\/small-batch wheat farming. Hello, New York publishers! This is so money! Where is my book deal?? Oh right. I haven’t finished the proposal. Right. Anyway. The piece (which is focused … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-washington-island"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}