Dan Richer

Eat Like a Fish

By: BREN SMITHSee it here

In Search of the Perfect Loaf

Introduction   It was December 2008, two months after Lehman Brothers imploded and a week before Christmas, when I got the call. One of my editors at a university magazine wouldn’t be needing my services anymore. Budget cuts were under way. Even he didn’t know how long his job would last. I hung up. Forty percent of my free- lance income had just evaporated. I went out for a walk on that chilly morning in Washington, thinking how typical this was— the news coming just before Christmas. When I worked years ear- lier as a business reporter, I had covered