Help! How Can I Slice Bread More Evenly? — Good Questions

Q: I have really gotten into baking my own bread in a dutch oven. So far, the loaves have been beautiful — and then I cut into it. I have a good bread knife and wait a painfully long time until the loaf has cooled, but every time I try to cut, the slices are either far too thick or too thin and always uneven. Any tips out there for evenly slicing a fat, round loaf of homemade bread?

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It’s Pumpkin! (A Real One, Not the Flavor.) — Cambria’s CSA Box, Week Fourteen

Is there a truer harbinger of fall than the pumpkin? This time of year we start to see pumpkin-flavored everything, but hardly any of it uses the real thing, relying instead on spices, syrups, and canned versions. But this week I got a lovely little pumpkin in my CSA box, which has me wondering what to do with it besides carving it up for Halloween…

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