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About Doughmidor
I am a lifetime artist and crafts person and have lived in Carolina Beach, NC since 1993. Finding work as an artist often ends up in the restaurant field. I used to work at a local mom ’n’ pop Italian restaurant called Mama Mia’s as a server back in the late 1990’s. They cooked a pretty decent NY style pie and I hung out in the kitchen on slow lunch shifts shooting the bull with Danny the daytime cook at the time. Danny is now the owner of the infamous Fat Pelican bar voted best dive bar in NC, and is just next door to the restaurant, but I digress. After I started working there I began buying their cold fermented pizza dough (the longer fermented the better) to make my own pizzas in my kitchen oven. This eventually evolved into me making my own dough and then becoming a bit obsessed with improving my pizza game and I started baking with an Ischia sourdough starter in 2016. My passion for traditional pizza making led me to want to use wood dough proofing boxes which we first made ourselves but are now having produced here in the USA. I am an artist and printmaker and have a private printmaking studio in Carolina Beach, NC. I mainly focus on etching photo based imagery into copper to make limited edition archival intaglio prints. I etch copper in the classic process of photogravure which was invented in 1879 shortly after the dawn of photography. The process involves a photo-sensitized gelatin that is exposed and transferred to a copper plate which gets developed, dried and etched in an iron salt solution. I am self taught in the process. The process is very nuanced and greatly effected by environmental factors such as humidity, temperature as well as time. I also make cyanotype prints (an iron based process) and dabble in salt printing (a silver, salt and gelatin based process) both historic photo processes that originate in the mid 19th century and also have their own set of unique variables. My experience with these historic photo process has informed my sourdough baking practice and vice versa. I greatly enjoy scientific problem solving with the set of variables the various processes present. These photo processes require lots of practice, time and patience and when everything works it is intensely rewarding, just like when baking using a natural sourdough levain. I have also worked in ceramics, making functional vessels, including my own baking stones, alembics and some flameware. Due to the lack of equipment required to make ceramics I have not worked with clay in quite a while. The earthly medium of ceramics is also extremely scientific, process and materials oriented which I am drawn to. My main company is Cape Fear Press, established in 2001. Before moving to Carolina Beach I lived in NYC for 3 years, absorbing all the culture I could; art, film, music, food, nightlife, etc. My time in NYC was extremely influential to me but I am happy to be in a warmer climate now and have a yard with lots of trees that I enjoy with my husband and 3 cats among an awesome beach community. The Doughmidor boxes are hand crafted here on the East Coast of the United States and we print the boxes ourselves here at my studio. They have been designed, constructed and printed with traditional materials, professional quality and longevity in mind. We hope you get one or more for yourself or the pizza entusiast in your life!
Doughmidor.com is a subsidiary company of Cape Fear Press, 'Cape Fear Press' will be on your transaction statement.
'Collards', a photogravure print, etched into copper and printed on cototn rag paper, approx 6x8", paper 11x15" ©2024 Jennifer Page |
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Biryani flameware pot, old world pressure cooker, lid sealed with dough and a heavy weight.. Chicken Biryani with fried onions and saffron rice, a delicious one-pot Indian meal. |
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