Grab your calculator and your pastry cutter it’s Pi Day! Beloved of math teachers everywhere, this March 14 celebration commemorates the first three However you slice it, we’ve got you covered for Pi Day festivities in Rhode Island.
RECIPE: Panzanella Salad
Bélinda Quinn is a wielder of sensory pleasures. A baking wunderkind, she fell in love with making bread the very first time she visited the boulangerie where a friend worked, tied an apron around her waist, bellied up to the counter and extended her hands downward. “As soon as I touched the dough,” she recalls, “I said, ‘Oh, my God. This is what I want to do.’”
In Quinn’s native France, bread-making is a profession that’s near sacrosanct, insinuating itself into every aspect of French culinary culture. “Bread has been in the world forever, and still today, it’s part of our diet. Bread-making is our thing in France,” Quinn says in a thick Parisian accent, with an unapologetic chuckle.