Baking

Professional Baking...

Wayne Gisslen’s Professional Baking, long the standard for bakers learning their craft, illuminates the art and science of baking with unmatched comprehensiveness and clarity. Packed with close to 900 recipes, this Fifth Edition continues to cover the basics of bread and cake making while also presenting higher-level techniques such as pastry, chocolate, and sugar work. Balancing theory and practice, Professional Baking...

How Baking Works: Exploring the Fundamentals of Ba...

An up-to-date, comprehensive guide to understanding and applying food science to the bakeshop The essence of baking is chemistry, and anyone who wants to be a master pastry chef must understand the principles and science that make baking work. This book explains the whys and hows of every chemical reaction, essential ingredient, and technique, revealing the complex mysteries of bread loaves, pastries, and everything in...

Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery...

Theres nothing like the smell of freshly baked bread to fill a kitchen with warmth, eager appetites, and endless praise for the baker who took on such a time-consuming task. Now, you can fill your kitchen with the irresistible aromas of a French bakery every day with just five minutes of active preparation time, and Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day will show you how.Coauthors Jeff Hertzberg and Zo Franois prove that bread...

Baked: New Frontiers in Baking...

As featured on The Martha Stewart Show and The Today Show and in People Magazine!Hip. Cool. Fashion-forward. These arent adjectives youd ordinarily think of applying to baked goods. Think again. Not every baker wants to re-create Grandmas pound cake or cherry pie. Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito certainly didnt, when they left their advertising careers behind, pooled their life savings, and opened their dream bakery, Baked,...

The Art and Soul of Baking...

2009 IACP Cookbook Awards Winner!Nominated for a 2009 James Beard Foundation Award.Sur La Table teamed with pastry chef and baking teacher Cindy Mushet to bring you the ultimate guide to baking. Beautiful photographs and more than 250 easy-to-follow recipes lead you into a world of alluring aromas and light, flaky pastries. Illustrated asides take you step by step through important techniques, from carmelizing sugar to...

Baking...

The learn-to-bake master class in a book. The craft of baking is based on good technique. Learn the fundamentals well, and you can bake perfect cakes, cookies, tarts, breads, and pastries each and every time. That’s the premise of Baking, revered cooking teacher James Peterson’s master course in baking fundamentals. In more than 350 recipes and auxiliary techniques–most accompanied by illuminating...

The Craft of Baking: Cakes, Cookies, and Other Swe...

Book Description James Beard Awardwinner Karen DeMasco, who first came to national attention as the pastry chef of Tom Colicchios Craft, Craftbar, and wichcraft restaurants from 2001 to 2008, approaches the art of baking in a unique way. Building on the savory cooking philosophy of using seasonal ingredients to create dishes with pure flavors, Karen makes acclaimed desserts that are both simple and elegant. Now, she shares...

Professional Baking...

This new edition gives professional and home bakers peerless up-to-date coverage of the theory and practice of baking. Keeping pace with current trends in the field, this edition includes a new chapter on baking for special diets, expanded and detailed information on ingredients and their use in baking, and new sections on sugar confections, as well as 100 new photographs. Complete with more than 775 classic and creative...

On Baking: A Textbook of Baking and Pastry Fundame...

From the creators of the best-selling On Cooking, 4/e comes the new edition of On Bakingthe source for learning the practice of baking and the pastry arts. Lavishly illustrated, it is the most complete guide on the marketemphasizing baking principles over formulas and reinforcing each technique with a companion recipe and illustrations. With ample coverage of the craft, equipment, and ingredients, it addresses all aspects of...

Baking Cakes in Kigali: A Novel...

Look for the discussion guide inside. This soaring novel introduces us to Angel Tungaraza: mother, cake baker, pillar of her community, keeper of secrets big and small. Angels kitchen is an oasis in the heart of Rwanda, where visitors stop to order cakes but end up sharing their stories, transforming their lives, leaving with new hope. In this vibrant, powerful setting, unexpected things are beginning to happen: A most...