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Breadmaking teacher Boonie Rhoads, Joseph Provey Nest Designer and Sled Dog Racer

September/October 1977
By the Mother Earth News editors 
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In celebration of little-known MOTHER-type folks from all over.

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BREADMAKING TEACHER: BONNIE RHOADS

"Anyone is a baker after his first loaf," says Bonnie Rhoads. "You can't destroy bread unless you grossly exaggerate the ingredients."

And Bonnie-who, not long ago, couldn't tell a whole grain from a hole in the wall-ought to know: She now teaches a regular breadmaking class . . . for about 20 students at a crack.

Ms. Rhoads works for The Bread Shop, a four-year-old Chicago bakery (now expanding to include a natural foods cooperative grocery store), to help finance her college creative writing courses. Though she remembers that her brother knew how to bake bread years ago, Bonnie herself didn't learn to work dough till she was hired by the bakery. After that, though, it only took her about two weeks to start baking and teaching for the shop like an expert.

Students pay $1.50 for a two-hour lesson, and that payment covers all ingredients needed to make three onepound loaves of whole wheat bread (each member of the class brings his or her own large mixing bowl, a wooden spoon, and a kitchen towel). As Bonnie strolls around The Bread Shop's two large butcher block tables, encouraging and correcting her students, each class member learns what ingredients and proportions to use, how to mix dough, and how to knead and shape a sponge of bread . . . before taking his or her completed loaves home to be baked.

"I teach students how to make whole wheat bread," Bonnie explains, "because it's the basis of so many other breads. Once you've mastered whole wheat, it's simple to add nuts, raisins, fruits, or cheese."

If there's a whole lot more natural bread being enjoyed in the city of Chicago than ever before, then, one per son you can thank for it is Bonnie Rhoads! - Bernard Lyons.

JOSEPH PROVEY: NEST DESIGNER

Soon after Joseph and Deborah Provey of Darien, Connecticut were married, they realized they couldn't get by forever with the redwood patio furniture they'd borrowed from Joseph's parents. But the predictable kinds of house furnishings they saw for sale seemed-if they could even afford them-unsuited to their tastes and lifestyle.

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