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An Offbeat Bakerys Guide to Crafting Sourdough Loaves , Flatbreads , Crackers , Scones , and More
Jonathan Stevens
Paperback
$ 24.95
2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist for CookingLonglisted for the André Simon Award for Food Books for 2024“A attractively written Good Book by a honest artisan . . . . Easy to read and potential to inspire , this book will take your bread - making to the next level . ”—Sandor Ellix Katz , agitation revivalist ; author ofThe Art of Fermentationand other fermentation bestsellers“It ’s impossible to read through the recipes inThe Hungry Ghost Bread Bookwithout being inspired to scoop out some sourdough starter and get meld . ”—Maurizio Leo , author of James Beard Award – winningThe Perfect LoafFor the adventuresome home baker and little - scale commercial-grade bread maker alike , The Hungry Ghost Bread Bookis a delicious guide and a pious devotional to the wonderful , veneration - inspiring human race of sourdough .
What does it mean to take on the exercise of bread ? Jonathan Stevens , co - proprietor of Hungry Ghost Bread in Northampton , Massachusetts , has pondered this question over thirty year of bake sourdough lucre . Baking is a ritual that demand care , physical proximity , close reflexion , and continual adjustment . It sire keep , fosters community , and connects us with a 10,000 - class - old trade . The Hungry Ghost Bread Bookis a window onto one baker ’s artisan approach to sourdough bread — the climax of his sentence in the lunar time period of boodle .
Sourdough , declares Stevens , is not astyleof lolly . Itisbread . The sourdough starter — the microbial community used to inoculate lolly dough — transforms flour into something genuinely digestible by human , unlock the nutrients that are otherwise untouchable . Stevens ’s unparalleled approach shot to working with sourdough can be summarize up by three tenets , each of which begins with “ more . ”More hydration , more ferment , and more heat in the oven .
Inside these pages , you ’ll get hold tools , techniques , insight , inadequate - undercut , element , warnings , and a handful of haiku . You ’ll find instructions for creating and parent your own sourdough starter , as well as formulas for a variety of loaf of bread , flatbreads , cracker bonbon , folds , scones , bagels , and more , including :
The termination are quite fantastic : dinero that bites back , heel deserving chewing on , and scraps worth toasting . A return to real Wonder .
“ The Hungry Ghost feast more than spirits with its striking breads . ”—Saveur(naming Hungry Ghost Bread a “ Great American Bread Bakery ” )
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