Best 50 Martinis or Artisan Baking

Best 50 Martinis

Author: Bristol

Be the hippest person on the block with your collection of 50 martini recipes, ranging from the traditional to the tradition-breaking. Also, learn a little martini history and mixology as well as creative ways to garnish your concoctions.

See also: Grand Livre De Cuisine or Ethnic Food Lovers Companion

Artisan Baking

Author: Maggie Glezer

It’s a crunch and aroma you can savor in your mind before you even take a bite: that perfect crust and that perfect crumb you can get only in bread baked with craft and care. Artisan Baking puts that bread within reach of every home baker; even the beginner now deftly will be able to turn out sourdoughs, pizzas, corn breads, and baguettes that are truly out of this world. Step-by-step instructions explain the best professional methods, and mail-order sources for ingredients and equipment simplify the baking experience. This is a book to bake from, to learn from, to read from for the sheer pleasure of encountering the generosity of spirit of the country’s finest bakers as they share their abundant expertise.

First published five years ago to glowing praise and awards, Artisan Baking is “a rare combination of clear writing, meticulous recipes, and abundant expertise” (Fine Cooking) and the cookbook that “those who live for and on bread have been waiting for” (The New York Times). It was picked by the editor of Cookbook Digest as the one book she would choose if she could have only one bread-baking book in her life. Reprinted twice in hardcover, Artisan Baking is now, at last, in an affordable paperback format with a new, easier-to-handle trim size.

Table of Contents:

Baking Basics
Ingredients, Equipment, and Techniques (3)
Breads by Category (20)

Starting with Flour
The Soul of Bread (25)
Into the Wheat Fields (41)
Threshing Days (49)
Stone Grinding (57)
Roller Milling (71)

Crafting Bread
Unraveling Sourdough (87)
In Praise of Pre-ferments (101)
A Very Small Artisan Bakery (121)
A Baker's Wood-Fired Oven (129)

Specialty Breads
Old World Rye Breads (141)
A Neapolitan Pizzaiolo (151)
Pandoro: Patience's Reward (161)
A New York Bialy (169)

The Baking Life
A Baker's Training (179)
Following Tradition (197)
Competition Baking (207)