Mastering sourdough at Brooklyn Bread Lab

Brooklyn Bread Lab’s head baker, Assane Diop, teaches a breadmaking class that is as philosophical as it is practical. Photo: Nicole Davis
It was foolish to think I was going to learn to bake a real artisan loaf in two hours. But the class I’d signed up for at Brooklyn Bread Lab promised to relay the all the tricks of mixing and baking a rustic bread by hand in one evening.
Excellent, I thought. I can do this. Because it’s really just time that prevents the