Teri Culletto, aka theVineyard Baker, creates art with focaccia bread as her canvas.
I discovered that the word focaccia is Latin for from the hearth.
Those words, so warm and inviting, stuck with me.
That class turned out to be a collaborative of artists and bakers all in one.
Later that same year, Culletto had another experience that informs her bread making today.
As a frequent visitor to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, she was captivated by theirVan Goghexhibit.
As art tends to do, I was inspired, she recalls, thinking, Why not try it?
This became my new favorite bread to make, she says.
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