Fleur Kelly’s Roman Loaf

The bread that fresco artist Fleur Kelly bakes regularly for her family looks just like the loaf you might spot in a Pompeian dining room fresco - an irregularly rounded golden pillow patched with brown. I first ate a big slice of it with baby beets in mayonnaise, a green salad and glasses of rosé, basking in the sun, and it was just how I like bread - crusty, dense of crumb and alive with the flavour of organic flour. An honest bread, good to the last crust and crumb. The charm of her reci