Letting the loaf cool before supper
The hardest step in the whole recipe is the last one: an hour on the counter, uncut, while the kitchen smells of it.

Chapter III
16:00 – 22:00
Supper, candles, and putting the day away.
The hardest step in the whole recipe is the last one: an hour on the counter, uncut, while the kitchen smells of it.

The last ritual of the day: lights down, candles on the window table, and the morning’s list folded into the back of the book.
