Sam Coates-Finke is a baker, an oven builder, and a teacher based in Western Massachusetts. He runs Backyard Bread, is co-manager of the Abundance Farm Bakery, and teaches at the Jewish Community of Amherst. In each role, he gathers people around food and fire. Sometimes that looks like a dozen toddlers asking for cleaning “tasks” at the Wood-Fired Bakery, or strangers working together to move pizza in and out of the stone oven, or adults swapping stories of bread from their childhood as they push, fold, push, fold the dough.
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