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A Baker's Life

100 fantastic recipes, from childhood bakes to five-star excellence
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A Baker's Life by Paul Hollywood is a baked journey through his lifelong passion for the craft. This book features 100 expertly refined recipes, spanning his early days in a family bakery, through honing skills in luxury hotels, to exploring bold Middle Eastern flavours and achieving fame on the Great British Bake Off. Filled with clear, step-by-step instructions and a variety of favourites such as garlic baguettes, feta and chive bread, and hazelnut cappuccino cake, it brings professional baking expertise into the home kitchen. Personal photographs and insightful anecdotes add warmth and character to the collection.
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This book will appeal to home bakers of all levels, fans of Paul Hollywood and the Great British Bake Off, and anyone keen to improve their baking skills with trusted, delicious recipes.

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100 top recipes - plus lessons, anecdotes and personal photos - from the baking career of Great British Bake Off judge Paul Hollywood

100 top recipes – plus lessons, anecdotes and personal photos – from the baking career of Great British Bake Off judge Paul Hollywood

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Accompanying the Channel 4 series, A Baker's Life contains 100 of Paul Hollywood’s very best baking recipes, which have been finessed over decades spent as a baker.

Each chapter of A Baker's Life is filled with bakes that represent a different decade – learning the basics at his father’s bakery; honing his pastry skills in the finest hotels; discovering the bold flavours of the Middle East while working in Cyprus; and finding fame with the phenomenally popular Great British Bake Off television series.

Thanks to this book (and its clear step-by-step instructions), recipes that Paul has spent years perfecting can be recreated at home. Favourites include garlic baguettes; feta and chive bread; chorizo and chilli Scotch eggs; mum's ginger biscuits; double chocolate Danish twists; and hazelnut cappuccino cake.

With photographs from personal family albums, plus many professional insights and anecdotes that reveal what makes a great baker, A Baker's Life will show you how to bring the baking skills Paul has learnt over a lifetime into your own home kitchen.

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The Sunday Telegraph praises the book, noting that "Home baking is all the rage - thanks in no small way to Paul Hollywood."

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781408846506

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 02 November 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Illustration: Colour photography throughout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 192.0mm

Height: 248.0mm

Weight: 1120g

Pages: 304

About the Author

Paul Hollywood shot to fame with his role as a judge on The Great British Bake Off. The son of a baker, Paul spent six years in Cyprus working at one of top hotels before becoming Head Baker at exclusive hotels in the UK, including Cliveden and the Dorchester. He went on to launch The Paul Hollywood Artisan Bread Company, which now supplies Waitrose, among others. The author of the bestselling How to Bake, Paul Hollywood's Bread, Paul Hollywood's Pies & Puds and Paul Hollywood’s British Baking, Paul makes regular contributions to national press, tours nationwide with sellout cookery demonstrations, and works extensively with the Flour Advisory Board.

paulhollywood.com / @PaulHollywood

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