World Guide to Bread

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Summary: Your illustrated guide to breads
Review: This book is a treasure not only for its recipes but more for its photographs. There are plenty of bread books on the market, but there are hardly any that will show readers what the bread looks like.

While this book doesn't have a photograph for all the breads mentioned, it has a very good description of almost all the breads you could ever come across. The book is divided into sections like "Breads from the Americas," and "Breads from Europe."

Of course there are recipes too, mostly for the more popular breads from each continent like crusty country breads, buttery challahs and brioches, and flat breads from the Orient.

I bake a lot of bread and this book is the first one I reach for when I want to know what the bread looks like. Once that's done, I'm on the way to baking up a good loaf or braid or roll or...

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Summary: Excellent Guide to Breads of the World & How to Bake Them!!
Review: This review is for the new edition of this book, published in 2002 by Hermes House (Britian). I loved this book for its gorgeous pictures, easy to follow instructions, and the easy to use layout of this guide. I am not a professional baker, but the rave reviews I receive after whipping up a few loafs of Italian, Jewish, or Hawaiian breads make me feel like one!! This is my favorite bread guide of all of those I own (approx 2 dozen). I highly recommend this beautiful book!!
Rebecca