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Build Your Own Earth Oven, 3rd Edition: A Low-Cost Wood-Fired Mud Oven; Simple Sourdough Bread; Perfect Loaves
Kiko Denzer, Hannah Field
Hand Print Press, 2007
Detailed and Complete
If you are looking to build an outdoors oven, you must read this book. Even if your goal is not an earth oven. Besides detailed information about the techniques to build an earth oven, Kiko describes very clearly the process of baking with wood and goes thru all the ...
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The Bread Baker's Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread
Peter Reinhart
Ten Speed Press, 2001
Speaking as someone that has actually read this book...
I was nearly put off of buying this book by some of the bad reviews I read. (I always read the bad reviews to get a broad picture.) If I hadn't taken the time to check the book out for myself I would have greatly missed out. Please read the following comments that ...
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The Bread Builders: Hearth Loaves and Masonry Ovens
Daniel Wing, Alan Scott
Chelsea Green, 1999
Bread minutia
I was looking for a book that would help me understand how to build a masonry oven. This book provides that along with much much more. The detail in the book regarding bread making is excellent and I am certain I will read this book many times as my experience grows. ...
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The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook
Beth Hensperger
Harvard Common Press, 2000
Love it!!!
My experiences with my bread machine (West Bend) were very poor. Could not make a good loaf of bread. Then came this book!!! Outstanding. So far, I have made three recipes from it (just got it recently) and all 3 were excellent. I made the basic Pizza dough on ...
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Betty Crocker's Best Bread Machine Cookbook: The Goodness of Homemade Bread the Easy Way
Betty Crocker Editors
Betty Crocker, 1999
Another wonderful book from Betty!
I just recently bought my first bread machine. When I was browsing, I came across this cookbook and bought it simply because I have always had good luck with my other Betty Crocker recipes. I love this book! It makes it so easy, especially for beginning bread ...
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Peter Reinhart's Whole Grain Breads: New Techniques, Extraordinary Flavor
Ten Speed Press, 2007
Great recipes, timely book
Considering the growing interest in 'healthy' breads, this is a timely book. Peter Reinhart puts his skills as recipe-developer, teacher and baker to good use in this attractive volume. The diversity of recipes makes it a particularly good buy (whole wheat recipes, ...
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The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread: A Novel
Don Robertson
Harper Paperbacks, 2008
Only the beginning... you'll want to read more
I first read this book in 1973 and it, along with 14 more of Robertson's novels, are top-shelf volumes in my personal library. His writing is addictive. In my opinion, he's America's greatest "unknown" author.
This novel is the first of the Morris Bird III trilogy ...
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A Passion for Baking
Marcy Goldman
Oxmoor House, 2007
A must have for the home baker
I just love this book! Everything I've made out of it has turned out perfectly, and I highly recommend it. The pictures themselves are reason enough to buy this book, and they were the main reason I bought it in the first place. If you love to bake, then get this book. ...
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The Joy of Vegan Baking: The Compassionate Cooks' Traditional Treats and Sinful Sweets
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Fair Winds Press, 2007
YAY!
how delicious! i've been baking out of this book for a few months now, so i can honestly say its recipes are excellent. I've been wowing vegans and non-vegans alike since my first attempt (the fudge) straight through my most recent (the cinnamon coffee cake). In fact, ...
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Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking
Jeff Hertzberg, Zoe Francois
Thomas Dunne Books, 2007
Bread baking
As a bread baker I was so impressed with these new ideas in this book and I recommended it to my daughters.
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A Passion for Baking
Marcy Goldman
Oxmoor House, 2007
A must have for the home baker
I just love this book! Everything I've made out of it has turned out perfectly, and I highly recommend it. The pictures themselves are reason enough to buy this book, and they were the main reason I bought it in the first place. If you love to bake, then get this book. ...
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Bread Givers: A Novel
Anzia Yezierska
Persea Books, 2003
I wanted to shake some sense into Sara's father
for being such a tyrant, for spoiling his daughters' wedding plans, and for RUINING their lives -- and believe me-- that kind of stuff REALLY went on in those days! And I wanted to shake some sense into her mother for PUTTING UP WITH THIS!!!
Sara Smolinsky's life ...
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Land of Plenty: A Treasury of Authentic Sichuan Cooking
Fuchsia Dunlop
W. W. Norton & Company, 2003
Good book Sichuan food
I have to say that as much I've cooked from this book, I've appreciate much more my neighborhood Sichuan place.
The author has done a great job. I do think there are some small areas where the technique isn't too obvious.
I would recommend reading the ...
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Crust & Crumb: Master Formulas for Serious Bread Bakers
Peter Reinhart
Ten Speed Press, 2006
The real thing, for the passionate who want to get it right
This book is what I've been looking for for 15 years, with the level of depth and detail that I wanted. I have a bread machine and love it for what it does, but real rustic breads and sourdough are a special thing.
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Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
Sara Miles
Ballantine Books, 2008
Faith and Action blend well together in this book.
From the moment I began reading to the last page I was hooked. I think this is a book that every church should own and require all outreach workers to read. In my view, Ms. Miles grasps and conveys in a succinct and direct manner just what it means to act out one's ...
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