Katic Artisan Breads

Hear ye. Hear ye. A fresh delivery of Katic Artisan Breads has arrived at Naturally Yours Grocery, Peoria store. When you enter the store, through the door facing the main check out counter and deli, turn right and just past the first cooler aisle, you'll see the Katic display.

Katic Bread - Beyond Sustenance at Art and Society, a publication of Peoria Magazines.

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Judged against Katic’s standard, most bakeries in the U.S. aren’t really bakeries at all. Instead, he refers to them as “bread depots”—bread makers who produce massive amounts of premixed dough to be frozen and shipped across the country. Today’s bread shops, he believes, lack the character and charm that should accompany a traditional bakery.

A bakery should be more than a shop that sells bread, says Katic. “You should know [the bakers], and they should know you.” And not only should bakers form a relationship with the community, they should also pursue quality over what’s fastest or cheapest. He characterizes American bread as “industrial…pumped full of chemicals to make the process as quick as possible.”

He offers other critiques of U.S. breads, calling them “suited for the wrong goal.” While Americans tend to demand soft bread, Katic says that a hard, chewy crust is essential. “That causes you to break it down…to produce a lot of saliva so that you digest it better.”

Instead of carefully developing the right bread structure and flavor, he says, most American breadmakers simply load up on sugar and fancy add-ons. “Just about all the American breads have sugar…and why do they do that? They don’t know how to draw out the flavor naturally in the flour. They’re doing things way too quickly. They’re making up for the fact that they’re not doing it the old-fashioned way.”

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Katic Breads are baked locally, in the traditional French style, and delivered to the store, fresh, every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

The date on the bread is the day it was made.

Choose from a wide variety of Katic Artisan Breads. I like having just Katic bread and Spectrum organic olive oil for lunch sometimes.

If you love bread that's not mass produced and loaded with chemicals and artificial flavorings, you'll be in heaven when you see all these wonderful breads.

Pain de Campagne.

Unbleached high gluten flour,

whole wheat flour,

dark rye flour, 

yeast,

salt.

Herb Focaccia.

Artisan bread flour,

yeast, 

salt, 

rosemary,

olive oil.

Whole Wheat Sourdough.

Artisan bread flour,

unbleached high gluten flour

salt.

Ciabatta.

Artisan bread flour,

yeast, 

salt.

Baguette.

Artisan bread flour,

yeast,

salt.

Chocolate Croissant.

Flour,

butter,

sugar,

yeast,

chocolate,

salt.

Croissant.

Flour,

butter,

sugar,

yeast, 

salt.