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Current Favorite Bread Books

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Current Favorite Bread Books

Here's just a quick list of my favorite bread books:

A Baker's Book of Techniques and Recipes by Jeffrey Hamelman

Bread Baking: An Artisan's Perspective by Daniel T. DiMuzio

The Art of Handmade Bread: Contemporary European Recipes for the Home Baker by Dan Lepard

Good Bread Is Back: A Contemporary History of French Bread, the Way It Is Made, and the People Who Make It by Steven LaurenceKaplan and Catherine Porter

Artisan Baking Across America: The Breads, The Bakers, The Best Recipes by Maggie Glezer and Ben Fink

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These days I don't read them for recipes...  I read them for stories, ideas, and inspiration, and to reference things...  They also make for nice bedtime reading...

I usually follow the recipe once to see if it works, then I will deviate from it the next times that I choose to make that style of bread...