Join us for an evening of conversation with Cristina Martin of bakernobakery and Jim Franks, the author of Existential Bread.
Books will be available for purchase through f12 Book Store.
Jim Franks is a baker and a poet who’s written a love story about bread — which is to say he’s
written a life story about listening, learning, trying, failing, adapting, and above all, caring. His
debut book builds on a life-consuming passion for quality bread: what goes into it, physically
and emotionally. Based in Chicago, Jim is known locally for selling out of loaves quickly, but
across the country he’s worked under nearly every bread baker equally obsessed with 100
percent whole grain. Through humor, history, relentless curiosity, and refreshingly unsentimental
poetry, Existential Bread teaches there are many ways to bake a loaf just as there are many
ways to live a life.
bakernobakery is Chris(tina) Martin.
Originally from Northern California, Chris has a strong passion for local farmer’s markets and growing their own ingredients. After spending a few years in fine dining kitchens around the country, they decided to open a home-based microbakery.
So yes, by technicality,
there is a bakery.
