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2017 Gourmand International World Cookbook Awards ""Best Bread Book in the United States"" How To Bake MORE Bread: Modern Breads/Wild Yeast demystifies sourdough and natural fermentation. The approach is simplified, updated, and delicious. The book begins with complete process for ""Pain au Levain"", the classic French sourdough. It's so clear even a beginner can become a successful home baker. The other bread recipes build on the basics and, thanks to ingenious home modifications and step-by-step color photographs, even the cutting edge techniques like Porridge Bread are easy to grasp. - Full-color technique section - - How to build your own sourdough starter from scratch - - Innovative Flavor Wheel for Bread Learn more at www.MichaelKalanty.com If you decide to purchase of copy, please write a review and let ChefMike know how you like his book. Thank you.

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Kalanty's follow-up to 2011's <em>How to Bake Bread</em> expands on the theme, focusing on wild yeast and how it can impart unique flavors into artisan breads. It all begins with a starter, a living culture of flour, water, and yeast that deepens in flavor complexity over time. The wild yeast found in the whitish bloom on fruits such as grapes and plums is employed in lieu of commercial yeast to create the starter. Kalanty walks readers through the entire process, from creating the starter and daily feedings to tips on keeping that culture alive and thriving so it can be used for future loaves. Once readers have their starters, Kalanty gives detailed instructions on baking classics such as pain au levain and sourdough, as well as an apple-walnut farmhouse bread studded with caramelized fruits and a grits and goat cheese porridge bread. The book's textbook approach and abundance of charts, figures, precise measurements, and detailed steps are probably best suited for professionals and culinary students. That said, novices are sure to come away with a much greater understanding of bread fundamentals (there are lots of photos and asides on techniques such as rotating breads in the oven and ornamental scoring), and amateur bakers obsessed with making perfect bread will have a hard time finding a better guide.--Publisher's Weekly - October 3, 2016 (10/03/2016)

Kalanty's follow-up to 2011's How to Bake Bread expands on the theme, focusing on wild yeast and how it can impart unique flavors into artisan breads. It all begins with a starter, a living culture of flour, water, and yeast that deepens in flavor complexity over time. The wild yeast found in the whitish bloom on fruits such as grapes and plums is employed in lieu of commercial yeast to create the starter. Kalanty walks readers through the entire process, from creating the starter and daily feedings to tips on keeping that culture alive and thriving so it can be used for future loaves. Once readers have their starters, Kalanty gives detailed instructions on baking classics such as pain au levain and sourdough, as well as an apple-walnut farmhouse bread studded with caramelized fruits and a grits and goat cheese porridge bread. The book's textbook approach and abundance of charts, figures, precise measurements, and detailed steps are probably best suited for professionals and culinary students. That said, novices are sure to come away with a much greater understanding of bread fundamentals (there are lots of photos and asides on techniques such as rotating breads in the oven and ornamental scoring), and amateur bakers obsessed with making perfect bread will have a hard time finding a better guide.--Publisher's Weekly - October 3, 2016 (10/03/2016)

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An award-winning, professional baker with more than 20 years' experience, Michael Kalanty is a craft bread baker, culinary instructor, and cookbook author. His certifications include Executive Pastry Chef, Culinary Educator, and Master Taster. Kalanty was also named Chef Instructor of the Year by Le Cordon Bleu and has several full-length baking courses online, produced in partnership with Craftsy.com. His first book, How to Bake Bread, won ""Best Bread Book in the World"" at the Paris Cookbook Fair in 2011.

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