072 Making Bread the French Way with Danielle Ellis, World Bread Awards Judge

Welcome! I’m very honored to introduce you to Danielle Ellis. Danielle is an Ambassador for the Real Bread Campaign and Judge for the World Bread Awards.

Today, Danielle shares how a series of influences - a childhood love of French holidays, a summer stint as an au pair, a “mad Scotsman”, and a tough pastry teacher all came together to convince Danielle to leave a decades-long career in marketing and enroll in a French school for baking. Danielle completed the 670 hour course (!!).

In addition, Danielle completed many months of work experience, including an internship at a bakery that used NO electrically-powered equipment - nope, not even to mix 50lb batches of dough.

Today, as an expert on baking, scaling, marketing, and running a bakery, Danielle teaches classes to both novice and professional bakers. Welcome Danielle!

Highlights

What is the Real Bread Campaign and Why do we need it?
The reason Danielle believes many people are "gluten intolerant"
A lifechanging summer in France
What Danielle teaches - not just baking, but marketing and running a bakery as well
The mad Scotsman who taught Danielle to bake and the pastry chef who taught her she was doing it "all wrong"
2 weeks at a bakery in Normandy with WWOOF where Danielle learned to make bread with NO electrically-powered equipment
670 hours of professional training in France
Starting and running one of the most successful food blogs in Scotland