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Let's Make Bread!
A Comic Book Cookbook
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An accessible and easy-to-follow comic book cookbook for baking delicious breads, featuring a basic universal method, guidelines for maintaining a sourdough starter, and recipes for classic loaves and fun new riffs, from the beloved author of Flour Water Salt Yeast. "A fun and refreshing addition to...
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"An accessible and easy-to-follow comic book cookbook for the home baker, with key breadmaking steps and tips, guidelines for starting and maintaining a sourdough starter, recipes for classic loaves, and more--from the author of Flour, Water, Salt, Yeast"--
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An accessible and easy-to-follow comic book cookbook for baking delicious breads, featuring a basic universal method, guidelines for maintaining a sourdough starter, and recipes for classic loaves and fun new riffs, from the beloved author of Flour Water Salt Yeast.
"A fun and refreshing addition to every baker's library." - Ciril Hitz, certified artisan bread baker, author, and educator
New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Ken Forkish adapts his expert bread baking tips and recipes from Evolutions in Bread and Flour Water Salt Yeast for the fun, beginner-friendly comic book cookbook format. With comics artist Sarah Becan's lively and colourful illustrations, Let's Make Bread! invites readers to embark on the journey of making bread with this new visual twist.
Forkish and Becan provide valuable tips for the first-time breadmaker, from the necessary equipment and ingredients to the basic eight-step bread method. They explain how to start, feed, maintain, and share a sourdough starter and include valuable troubleshooting tips for temperature, dough texture, proofing, and more.
They also present seventeen gold-standard recipes for both traditional and customisable loaves, including The Saturday Bread, The Standard, Corn Kernel Bread, Raisin-Pecan Bread, and more!
Pairing foolproof techniques and recipes with an exciting and inviting comic format, Let's Make Bread! is an enjoyable guide to making your own perfect loaf at home.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781984860873
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 May 2024
Country: United States
Imprint: Random House Inc
Illustration: FULLY ILLUSTRATED
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 178.0mm
Height: 254.0mm
Weight: 600g
Pages: 160
About the Author
Ken Forkish is the founder of Ken's Artisan Pizza and Ken's Artisan Bakery. He is the bestselling author of Evolutions in Bread and Flour Water Salt Yeast, which won both a James Beard and IACP award, and The Elements of Pizza. Sarah Becan is a comics artist, author, illustrator, and designer based in Chicago. She is also the creator of I Think You're Sauceome, a food-centric autobiographical webcomic. She illustrated the cookbook The Adventures of Fat Rice and is the coauthor and illustrator of Let's Make Ramen! and Let's Make Dumplings! Her work has appeared in various publications, including Saveur, Eater, Organic Life, StarChefs, and Tasting Table.
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