Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

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John Cage's Homemade Bread

By Moria Hodgson

Updated September 21, 2026

Total Time1 hour 30 minutes, plus cooling time

Rating4(18)CommentsRead comments

John Cage, an avant-garde musician and the longtime partner of choreographer Merce Cunningham, shared this recipe with Moira Hodgson.

Featured in: CUNNINGHAM AND CAGE AND A LIVELY DINNER

Ingredients

• 5 cups vegetable puree or gruel (see note)

• 5 cups stone-ground wholewheat flour

• 4 tablespoons fresh minced dill

• 1 teaspoon salt
  
  

• Preparation

  1. Step 1

     Combine puree and flour in a large mixing bowl. Mix thoroughly. If the mixture is too liquid to knead add more flour. If too dry add more liquid.

  2. Step 2

     Knead the mixture for 10 minutes. Turn into an 8 ½-by-4 ½-by-2 ½ breadpan.

  3. Step 3

     Bake in a pre-heated 375 degree oven for 1 hour 15 minutes.

  4. Step 4

     Turn out onto a rack and cool.

  Tip

  • Mr. Cage uses leftover cooked vegetables such as broccoli, kale, spinach, carrots, celery, celery root and squash, which he purees in a food processor with vegetable stock or water. The bread has the consistency of a dense German pumpernickel and goes well with smoked salmon

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On Fri, 13 Nov 2026 at 04:36, AHF <> wrote:

Many times I saw him empty the fridge of veggies soggy and well past it and make bread out of them. I can’t read the whole recipe you linked to as it’s behind a firewall. But this is as good an obit as any.

A key to understanding John is to know that if we were in the middle of a tight deadline to finish a commission — say a large orchestra piece — something many might consider important — he might suddenly look up and say — I need to run out and get something — only to return some time later with a single lemon.

Andrew

On Nov 12, 2026, at 20:38, Josh Ronsen (via silence Mailing List) <> wrote:

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/5280-john-cages-homemade-bread

I was looking for their obituary of Cage, but their search engine gave me this instead.

-Josh Ronsen

in Austin, Texas
http://ronsen.org