{"id":152063,"date":"2025-03-23T17:30:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T17:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/recipes\/category-a-b\/bread\/r-i-p-gerard-rubaud-1941-2018\/"},"modified":"2025-03-23T17:30:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T17:30:36","slug":"r-i-p-gerard-rubaud-1941-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=152063","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. G\u00e9rard Rubaud (1941-2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5782\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.farine-mc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_8828-1-e1539103447583-680x680.jpg?resize=680%2C680\" alt=\"G\u00e9rard Rubaud\" width=\"680\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.farine-mc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_8828-1-e1539103447583.jpg?resize=680%2C680 680w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.farine-mc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_8828-1-e1539103447583.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.farine-mc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_8828-1-e1539103447583.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.farine-mc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_8828-1-e1539103447583.jpg?resize=768%2C768 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.farine-mc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_8828-1-e1539103447583.jpg?resize=125%2C125 125w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.farine-mc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_8828-1-e1539103447583.jpg?w=2000 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.farine-mc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_8828-1-e1539103447583.jpg?w=3000 3000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.farine-mc.com\/2009\/11\/meet-baker-gerard-rubaud.html\">G\u00e9rard Rubaud<\/a><\/strong> passed away yesterday. He hadn\u2019t been well for a while but he was on the mend. He sounded very upbeat the last time we spoke, which was two weeks ago before I left on my trip.<\/p>\n<p>He hadn\u2019t started production again since he came back from the hospital: he just didn\u2019t have the energy for it yet but he was building a new <em>levain <\/em>(starter), playing with grains, temperatures and percentages\u00a0as a musician would play music and he was already dreaming of future <em>fourn\u00e9es <\/em>(batches.) I know he planned to start small but I can\u2019t remember if\u00a0 he said thirty or one hundred loaves. Either way it sounded like a huge step on the slow path to recovery.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t to be.<\/p>\n<p>Today G\u00e9rard\u2019s\u00a0<em>levain<\/em> is orphaned. The oven is cold. And the world has lost a great baker. Someone who lived and breathed bread and could follow the baking process in his head from A to Z as a true fan would watch a game on TV. He had almost a symbiotic relationship with dough.<\/p>\n<p>I will never forget the sight of him bent over the bench in his old bakery, his light the only one around in the darkness of Vermont nights. A flicker of his wrist, a cloud of flour, the dull shine of his bench knife and the balls of dough filling up tray after tray waiting to be shaped.<\/p>\n<p>When he was baking he slept in 12-minutes increments. On a wooden bench near the window when he knew a visitor might come. Otherwise right there on the floor in front of his oven. His favorite spot. Don\u2019t ask why 12 minutes, it was one of his pet theories and it worked for him.<\/p>\n<p>We lived on opposite coasts but we were close. I will miss our weekly talks. I will miss his saying: \u201c<em>Formidable!<\/em> (Never better!)\u201d each time I asked how he was doing. It always made me laugh. G\u00e9rard wasn\u2019t one for self-pity, that\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, my friend. 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