Stone House Bread - Artisan Bread in the Traverse City Michigan Area

At the big bend in Leelanau County's Eagle Highway, in a grove of century-old maples, stands a small stone house as old as the trees. Otto LaBonte's daughter trudged out there every morning to turn the cream separator, and tothis day she calls it The Creamery. The windows and door were gone when we first saw the house, the roof leaked, the huge bumblebees cruised in to visit ancestral nests in the thick walls. We tuckpointed the stone and fixed the roof and windows, and the b uilding is ready now for another hundred years. Stone House Bread takes inspiration from the solid honesty of its split stone, the simple, strong lines of its architecture, and its promise certain of sturdy shelter.