From Portland's most acclaimed and beloved baker comes this must-have baking guide, featuring recipes for world-class breads and pizzas and a variety of schedules suited for the home baker.“And the patio has a private view of Mount Hood. “People bike or walk their dogs on a path near the property,” she said. The house on a 6,098-square-foot lot is hidden by trees and feels tucked away, said Knight, and yet you feel part of the community. Another place to relax: in the hot tub or on the deck. The three-level house has 2,896 square feet of living space.ĭotting the landscape are harvestable rosemary and lavender. The lower level has a one-bedroom apartment with a private entrance. One of the three upstairs bedrooms has a bank of windows fronted by a bench seat. The floor plan offers several spots to lounge, eat, drink and relax on the main level, she added.Ī reddish brown-colored banquette sits under a window near the kitchen’s back door, and the living room has a sliding glass door and a wide window seat in which to sit, read or write.īetween the living room’s beam ceilings and hardwood floors are built-in bookshelves near the white mantel-topped fireplace. Most of his remodeling efforts were focused on the 22-foot-long kitchen and adjoining dining area, which have west-facing windows that draw in streams of light, Knight said. The terra-cotta oven was assembled and installed by mason Timothy Seaton of Timely Construction in Camas, Washington.įorkish has owned the wooded property in the Homestead neighborhood near Oregon Health & Science University and Marquam Nature Park since 2004. The domed oven was made in Tain-l’Hermitage in southeastern France using special white Larnage clay and a design perfected by the 182-year-old, family-owned Le Panyol company. “Ken had a large, commercial version of this oven at Ken’s Artisan Pizza.” “You can bake anything in the indoor, wood-fired oven, even casseroles, and grill meat, fish and vegetables,” Knight said. If entertaining and eating are your passions, this is the place, said listing agent Sarah Knight of Scout Realty Co. By the next Saturday, an offer had been accepted. 26, he put his 1904 Craftsman-style house at 348 S.W. Since then, he sold his bakery and restaurant to his employees, and in January, retired to his “happy place,” Hawaii. There’s a copper kitchen sink, dough-friendly marble counters and an authentic Le Panyol wood-fired oven for fresh baguettes and croissants.Ī café table, set up under trees for a romantic rendezvous, is near garden boxes brimming with culinary thyme, chives and other herbs.įorkish, 63, is a James Beard Award-winning cookbook author who wrote “Flour Water Salt Yeast,” which rose to become America’s top-selling baking book during the pandemic. Oregon’s best-known baker, Ken Forkish, who founded Ken’s Artisan Bakery and Ken’s Artisan Pizza, is selling his Southwest Portland house filled with features seen in French cafés.

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