Roy,

I think you fail to differentiate between authors like Galli, who have owned
and operated a very good bakery, and Field, who went to a country, liked the
food, and wrote about it.

Galli is  one of my top five, but so is Field.

Two good authors, different feels, if that's the right word.

Galli writes, as does Ortiz, as if he has to shake the flour off his hands
to grip the pen.

Field writes as one who has travelled around and collected recipes from
bakers she admires.

Isn't there room for both?

I guess it's a lot like Samartha in the various bread groups who tries to
denigrate anyone who doesn't agree with her definition of pumpernickle, even
though Orwasher's is doing a great job with good bread..  I really don't
like the Purity Police.

At the end of the day, as our British friends would say, I don't think
you've given enough thought to the audience and readership of this forum.
We are not professional bakers.  Thank God.  (have you read the latest
edition of the Stoeger's Shooter's Bible?  Yeah, I got my bones in shooting,
too.  Pistol, rifle, shotgun, automatic weapons)  Not to denigrate
professional bakers, but they are usually just turning out a product, "I
start my shift, I bake this stuff, I finish my shift."  The readership here
is different from the guys in a professional bakery.  We don't have to turn
a profit.  It won't kill us if our bread is inedible -- we can either make
it into bread crumbs or feed it to the birds.

I think your answer to this post, and, now that I think about it, to the
post on minimal kneading, may illustrate that you may have a faulty
understandingat's going on here.  I appreciate your knowledge.  I have a
"Roy B" file and it gets bigger with each of your posts.  However, I think
you should  take a few heartbeats and ask yourself if there isn't a bit of
difference between professional and home standards.

But I will still print and save everything you write, even if you tell me to
go to hell.

What you haven't addressed is the lack of bread recipes in a group dedicated
to bread recipes.

Barry