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Informationen zum Autor Gaitri Pagrach-Chandra has a multi-cultural background—in her own words "a convent-attending Guyanese Hindu of Indian ancestry, who was educated in North America and Europe and subsequently married into a European Jewish family." A food historian and freelance translator, she received the Sophie Coe Award 2000 for food history, presented by the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. Her book, Warm Bread and Honey Cake: Home Baking from around the World (Interlink, 2010), won the Guild of Food Writers Award for Cookbook of the Year 2010. She is also the author of Windmills in My Oven (Prospect), Sugar and Spice: Sweets and Treats from around the World (Interlink, 2013) and Het Nederlands Bakboek (Kosmos, 2012), which won the Dutch Cookery Book of the Year Award 2012. She lives in the Netherlands. Klappentext UK Guild of Food Writers Award Winner Cookery Book of the Year Baking is one of lifes pleasuresfew can resist the comforting smell of freshly baked bread, the warmth of spices, sticky cakes, or oozing pastries. Containing a mix of familiar family favorites and unusual, exotic delicacies, this comprehensive collection of recipes for breads, cakes, biscuits and pastries is also a well-researched exploration of home-baking techniques and global ethnic history. Inspired by her multicultural background the author has drawn inspiration from all over the world, including Europe, the Middle East, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America. All the recipes are simple to follow and beautifully photographed, with any unusual techniques illustrated step-by-step for ease. Try your hand at Azorean honey cake or Jamaican hard dough bread. Let your familys taste buds thrill to Azerbaijani cream cheese baklava or Dutch brown sugar coils. The combination of delicious recipes and fascinating historical and anecdotal text make this book a fantastic reada must for any home cook looking to truly broaden their repertoire or with an interest in the culture of food....
