Mix, shape, boil, bake, and eat the most spectacular bagels you've ever tasted!
Bake Your Own Amazing Bagels demystifies every step of making the "roll with a hole."
Rockridge resident Laurie Leiber teaches ordinary people how to bake extraordinary bagels. Leiber's passion for authentic, naturally fermented bagels has always been more than a business—it's an obsession. But the catastrophic results of the recent national election caused Leiber to rethink BYOB's purpose.
“Desperate times call for desperate measures,” says Leiber, “and producing a superior bagel isn't going to be enough in 2017.” The potential destructive impact of a Trump administration on civil rights, reproductive rights, and efforts to reduce gun injuries prompted Leiber to direct all the proceeds from future BYOB workshops to one of three organizations; the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense.
Leiber's “starter to nosh” workshops let students experience every step of the process for making bagels. Although most participants are local, past students have taken their new bagel-making skills to Austria, Italy, Mexico, and India.
“No one should settle for mediocre bagels,” says Leiber. “Even people who describe themselves as 'non-bakers' can learn to produce superb bagels. Now they can simultaneously acquire this delicious skill and contribute to the resistance. How cool is that?”
Rockridge resident Laurie Leiber teaches ordinary people how to bake extraordinary bagels. Leiber's passion for authentic, naturally fermented bagels has always been more than a business—it's an obsession. But the catastrophic results of the recent national election caused Leiber to rethink BYOB's purpose.
“Desperate times call for desperate measures,” says Leiber, “and producing a superior bagel isn't going to be enough in 2017.” The potential destructive impact of a Trump administration on civil rights, reproductive rights, and efforts to reduce gun injuries prompted Leiber to direct all the proceeds from future BYOB workshops to one of three organizations; the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense.
Leiber's “starter to nosh” workshops let students experience every step of the process for making bagels. Although most participants are local, past students have taken their new bagel-making skills to Austria, Italy, Mexico, and India.
“No one should settle for mediocre bagels,” says Leiber. “Even people who describe themselves as 'non-bakers' can learn to produce superb bagels. Now they can simultaneously acquire this delicious skill and contribute to the resistance. How cool is that?”
