Blue Bowl Breads

i started blue bowl breads to honor the tradition of bread baking passed on to me by my mom, betsy oppenneer. mom was a world-renowned author and baking instructor whose honey-sweet southern charm and deep knowledge of the kitchen led julia child to call her the pied piper of bread bakers. my mom was an accomplished international association of culinary professional certified “foodie” who wrote several highly-regarded cookbooks on bread baking and released two instructional videos. over her long career, she was a teacher, author, restauranteur, cookbook judge, and caterer. she sold her successful bread baker’s catalog to king arthur flour in 1991 (which grew up to become the baker’s catalogue, king arthur flour’s flagship publication). in 2004, mom was invited through a usaid program to be a bread baking consultant to volgograd state technical university in russia (i could go on). she passed away in 2011. in october of 2015, i was one of five workshop leaders in oaxaca, mexico, present