Review published on 20/05/2013 © Sunday Herald

Review published on 20/05/2013 © Sunday Herald by Ron Mackenna

As baking’s the new cooking and cooking is the new black it seems only right to spend the afternoon at a class in Glasgow’s Grassroots deli with Paola and Cristina, the Two Mamas.

I’m checking out the hottest development in the hot, hot bake world: what the Italians call pasta madre – or baking with natural yeasts. It doesn’t get more cutting edge or delicious than this.

By the time I leave I’m lightly stuffed with freshly dusted sweet and sourdough brioche and gorgeous torta della rose, both pulled hot from the ovens by Paola in the kitchen at the back of deli.