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Monday Morning Open Thread: Favorite Bread Books

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Monday Morning Open Thread: Favorite Bread Books

10/25/21

Andrew Janjigian
Oct 25, 2021
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Monday Morning Open Thread: Favorite Bread Books

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Welcome to this week’s Open Thread. It’s cookbook season, and there are a ton of new bread-related titles I’m excited about getting my mitts on (some of which I will be writing about here no doubt). But I thought it would be interesting to hear about some of the bread books that have influenced all of you over the years. Which ones are the most butter-stained and dog-eared in your collection?

—Andrew

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Steve
Oct 25, 2021

I have come to regular bread baking only recently but my wife, who has always been the baker in the house, has leaned heavily on Bernard Clayton’s Complete Book of Breads over the years.

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Nic Miller
Writes Tales From Topographic Kitchens
Oct 25, 2021Liked by Andrew Janjigian

Yesterday I found a used copy of Linda Collister's 'Flavoured Bread'. I am a huge fan and very keen to try her honey nut loaf. I also love her 'The Complete Bread and Baking Book' As for new titles, 'Baking with Fortitude' by Dee Rettali (who uses a sourdough-like batter which is left to ferment, for her cakes, Chad Robertson's 'Bread Book' and 'Mooncakes and Milk Bread' by Kristina Cho are on my radar. I'm more of a devoted reader about and consumer of when it comes to bread although I do bake the more unusual kinds I can't buy here. I'd never bake a Scottish batch loaf though because my local baker does it so superbly.

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