Tonight, students and area residents will have a chance to learn how to make their own pizza pie - and save on delivery bills.
Creative Bread Making, hosted by Avalanche and Community Food Initiatives, will begin at 6:30 tonight at 94 Columbus Road.
The workshop is part of the Food Ways Thursdays put on by Community Food Initiatives, an Athens-based non-profit dedicated to helping people become more self-sufficient and make their own food.
We have had workshops this year ranging from how to do home canning to making your own bread
and in two weeks we have one about how to make sausage Liz Shaw, community gardens manager for Community Foods Initiatives, said.
Patty Nally, a 2009 graduate of Ohio University and employee of Avalanche and Creative Food Initiatives, said the workshop is meant to show people how easy bread is to make.
(We) are trying to make bread more accessible to people. A lot of people are afraid of baking because it seems like kind of a magical thing that happens. We are going to try and expose that as a myth because it is really not that hard
she said.
Baking bread is also cheaper than buying bread in stores.
Bread is really cheap and it is really good
Nally said. We have been doing a lot of price checking at the different grocery stores around town so we can tell people really the cheapest place to get ingredients.
The main ingredients of bread are yeast, olive oil, flour and water, although other things can be added to create specialty breads.
To make bread
you add the dry ingredients first
then you add the wet ingredients. Then you let it sit on your oven all day
and then in the evening you just have to knead it a little bit
and then let it rise for 45 minutes to an hour
Nally said. After that you can make it into whatever you want
like a pizza or a calzone.
Overall, Nally said the event is just a great opportunity for students to learn how to make bread or pizza to their exact liking.
Students eat pizza all the time
