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Article: Recipe for Success
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- Monterey County Weekly
- Article date:
- July 9, 2009
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CopyrightCopyright Monterey County Coast Weekly Jul 9-Jul 15, 2009. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The new Big Sur Bakery Cookbook: A Year in the Life of a Restaurant journals how to survive down south.
It all begins with the bread.
The morning shift slips through the predawn still and into the modest kitchen at 4am to start baking it. When diners come, the breads- asiago sourdough, nine-grain and Tibetan barley among them- arrive first, long before the wood-roasted California sea bass or house-aged rib-eye, delivered on cutting boards with exotic salts and fresh butter. And it was bread, after all, that helped settle the principals when they headed north in the first place.
Big Sur Bakery frontman and co-founder Mike Gilson had long visited lively local celebrity Terry "Hide" Prince, ...