So I count myself even luckier that Mr. Scheft agreed to teach me how to make a version designed for home baking.

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Founded in 2008 by Danny Gabriner, it began as a home experiment with sourdough baking that resulted in a doughy vision.

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He felt cold and liked it, knowing that at home the room would be baking, the two-bar heater running day and night on pilfered electricity, the family luxuriating in excess warmth, even though the spring weather had come.

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Baking bread at home?

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Another problem, as Merrie Paulsen pointed out, was that Patty was no great progressive and certainly no feminist (staying home with her birthday calendar, baking those God-damned birthday cookies) and seemed altogether allergic to politics.

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He's also concerned that boys and men "see the bumbling dad ... and think that's what's expected of them, " the stay-at-home father of two told me by phone while baking chips for his kids out of kale from his garden.

CNN: June 15, 2012 -- Updated 1120 GMT (1920 HKT)