Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking

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Macmillan, Nov 13, 2007 - Cooking - 256 pages

With this revolutionary home baking guide that makes the perfect gift for foodies and cooks, you can make your daily bread--and eat it too!

This is the classic that started it all. Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day has now sold hundreds of thousands of copies. With more than half a million copies of their books in print, Jeff Hertzberg and Zoë François have proven that people want to bake their own bread, so long as they can do it easily and quickly.

Crusty baguettes, mouth-watering pizzas, hearty sandwich loaves, and even buttery pastries can easily become part of your own personal menu, Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day will teach you everything you need to know, opening the eyes of any potential baker.

 

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Contents

1 Introduction
1
2 Ingredients
7
3 Equipment
13
4 Tips and Techniques
17
5 The Master Recipe
25
6 Peasant Loaves
45
7 Flatbreads and Pizzas
133
8 Enriched Breads and Pastries
179
Index
239
Sources for BreadBaking Products
242
Copyright

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About the author (2007)

Jeff Hertzberg is a physician with 20 years of experience in health care as a practitioner, consultant, & faculty member at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He is also an ardent amateur baker. Hertzberg developed a love of great bread while growing up in New York City's ethnic patchwork of the 1960s and 70s, and he refined this love with extensive travel throughout France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Britain, and Morocco. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his wife and two daughters.

Zoë François is a pastry chef and baker trained at the Culinary Institute of America. With Jeff Hertzberg, M.D., she is the author of Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day. Passionate about food that is real, healthy and always delicious, François teaches baking and pastry courses nationally, is a consultant to the food industry, and creates artful desserts and custom wedding cakes. She also writes the recipe blog Zoë Bakes. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her husband and two sons.

Bibliographic information

TitleArtisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking
AuthorsJeff Hertzberg, M.D., Zoë François
Photographs byMark Luinenburg
PublisherMacmillan, 2007
ISBN142990478X, 9781429904780
Length256 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Cooking / Courses & Dishes / Bread
Cooking / Courses & Dishes / Cakes
Cooking / Courses & Dishes / Desserts
Cooking / Courses & Dishes / Pizza
  
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