Les Saidel

Les Saidel, a master baker originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, lives in Karnei Shomron with his wife Sheryl and four children. He is CEO of the Saidel Jewish Baking Center (www.jewishbakingcenter.com), that specializes in baking and teaching how to bake healthy, traditional Jewish bread. He also manages the Showbread Institute (www.showbreadinstitute.org) which researches the biblical showbread.

 Illustrative image of a robot hand putting a cherry on top of a cupcake.

Baking with artificial intelligence: Is AI a superior baker than humanity?

 Bagels (Illustrative)

Bagels: How boiled bread became an iconic food worldwide

 Milk and honey (Illustrative)

Shavuot: Making bread out of milk and honey


The secret to successful Passover baking: It's all in the flour

Without gluten, it is very difficult to bake high-quality bread, but it is possible to bake high-quality cakes and cookies.

 GRINDING FLOUR for making matzot in Bnei Brak.

The Russia-Ukraine War will cause a yeast shortage. Solution: Sourdough

I do not have a solution for the wheat crisis, except perhaps baking with alternative grains, but I do have a solution for the upcoming yeast shortage.

 No yeast? No problem

Tuscany matzot for Passover

Matzah is regarded as “poor man’s bread,” symbolic of our slavery in Egypt, and the lack of flavor emphasizes this.

 BEAUTIFUL TUSCANY.

On Tu Bishvat, the new year of trees, try some new bread

Just as with life, baking bread can be a reminder that you are only partially in control – however much you want to feel otherwise.

 JUST AS with life, baking bread reminds you that you are only partially in control.

In the grain: Festive food of routine

The Jewish year is filled with festivals, each with its own customary, hallmark food - here is a recipe for country bread.

 NOTHING LIKE some comforting country bread.

How to be a better baker through understanding heat transfer

Anyone who studied basic physics in high school will remember that there are three forms of heat transfer. 

 BREAD BAKES from the outside in.

Can baking bread teach us about society?

Most people do not regard bakers as philosophers but the principles of baking bread teach us much about building a viable, stable and moral society.

Bread

In the grain: Know your fiber

What makes it unique in the food pyramid (proteins, carbohydrates, fats, etc.) is that the human body cannot digest fiber without outside help.

The might flax seed

Top 10 bread baking tips

Bread is not meant to be eaten alone. Nothing beats breaking bread (not slicing it) with friends or family.

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Looking at the whole picture - from planting to eating

They say we all have wisdom in hindsight after we have experienced the process from its inception to its culmination.

Cinammon and raisin challah