You reach for yeast in the pantry and realize it’s been sitting there for months—a familiar moment for many home bakers, and ...

Bread comes in a variety of shapes, sizes and flavors. From leavened sourdough and challah to unleavened pitta and matzo, there's a bread for every mood and moment. But what exactly does it mean when ...

Researchers have developed a method to leaven pizza dough without yeast. The team, which included its very own professional pizza-maker/graduate student, prepared the dough by mixing water, flour, and ...

Baker's yeast as we know it today is a living single-celled fungus given the name of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. There are over 1,500 species of yeast and this one in particular is most likely a ...