Lesson 15: Kamut

I remember very clearly the first time I saw a 100 percent Kamut loaf, made with freshly milled Kamut flour, baked directly on the hearth. It emerged from the oven a supernatural combination of yellow, orange, red, and brown, with an ear you could slice a tomato on. In fact, it looked just like the picture on the facing page.

It had been made by the hands of Dave Miller, the master baker who so generously shared many an early morning with me, calmly shaping hundreds