Chef Carla Hall had never heard of "friendship bread" before someone gave her a plastic zip-top bag full of a yeasty, mushy starter. As a young caterer just starting out, she got busy baking up a ...

Darien Gee began her first Amish friendship bread the way most people do: reluctantly. "Friendship bread came into my home the same way it comes into many peoples' homes: Somebody gave it to us. My ...

You just never know what will serve as inspiration. For Waimea resident Darien Gee, it was a Ziploc bag of gloopy, bubbly liquid that her daughter, Maya, brought home from school. If Gee were a ...

At some point in every woman’s life, they are going to get a bag of starter for Amish Friendship Bread. It’s inevitable — like a chain letter, but tasty! Darien Gee's debut novel, “Friendship Bread,” ...

affection for baking with Friendship starter in the newspaper's Food section. At the time, Vick was co-anchor for WJW Channel 8's noon news program. "A friend's wife gave some of the starter to me," ...

Friendship bread is the chain letter of baking: A simple starter that you divvy up, keeping some for yourself and sharing the rest with others. It's an old tradition that connect neighbors through the ...