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Peter Reinhart  

Master Breadmaker,Teacher, Author ok Cookbooks, and Theologian

Peter Reinhart's food work began as ministry outreach and later became a full-fledged culinary and teaching career. Both an educator and lay minister, his lessons focus on both secular and spiritual education. One of his books, Bread Upon the Waters: A Pilgrimage Toward Self Discovery and Spiritual Truth is first in a series of books exploring nourishment in terms of food and one's life mission.

Reinhart is founder of the award-winning Brother Juniper's Bakery in Santa Rosa, California. He's now a full-time faculty member in the International Baking and Pastry Institute at Johnson and Wales University. He has also developed a line of frozen gourmet pizzas, calzones, toaster snacks and bagels for Amy's Kitchen.

His latest book is Peter Reinhart's "Whole Grain Breads: New Techniques, Extraordinary Flavor."

"I've spent years following directions from more than a dozen bread baking books ... I've only ended up with bread that tastes like inner tube. Peter [Reinhart] has unraveled the mystery of baking, and I now approach this intimidating subject with confidence."

Speech Topics


Inconsolable Longing: Finding Your Mission in Life

Traditional wisdom teachings have identified four levels for understanding the meaning of all things: literal, poetic/metaphorical, philosophical, and mystical. Peter has become well known for his ability to connect these levels through the subject of bread.

How Baking Works: Why Cooking Is Both Science and Art, and Even a Little Bit of Alchemy

In this presentation, Peter draws upon his experience as both a baking instructor and professor of food and culture at Johnson & Wales University to explain both the literal and metaphorical aspects of basic food science and how it effects transformations in ingredients that turn them into something totally new and different.

The Leaven Factor

In this presentation, he articulates the connection between the twelve transformational stages that wheat goes through in its journey from the earth to the table, and how this journey portrays the universal symbolism and principles of the human journey of personal transformation and self-discovery.

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