Laurel's Bread Cookbook

Zusatztext “Original! thorough and comprehensive...Should help to demystify the process of baking with whole grains.” —The New York Times Book Review “Here at last is a readable source of information heretofore available only to professional bakers.” —East West Journal “Sets a new standard with clear! easily followed recipes that not only tell you ‘how!’ but ‘why.’” —Newsday “We get lots of requests for 100 percent whole-grain bread machine recipes. Thanks to Laurel! we can fulfill these requests. What a wonderful! well-researched book! There are many delicious and varied recipes! and best of all some really innovative ideas on how to make whole-grain bread machine baking easy and successful. This will definitely be added to our baking library.” —Linda Rehberg and Lois Conway! authors of Bread Machine Magic Informationen zum Autor To hundreds of thousands, Laurel Robertson has become a guiding spirit whose kitchen symbolizes whole-food cookery at its best. She is the author of Laurel’s Kitchen , a vegetarian cookbook first published in 1976 that was a major contributor to the increasing awareness of vegetarian eating in the United States. With her co-contributors, including Carol Flinders, Bronwen Godfrey, and Brian Ruppenthal, she has written several more Laurel’s Kitchen books, including The Laurel’s Kitchen Bread Book, Laurel’s Kitchen Recipes, and Laurel’s Kitchen Caring . Klappentext The classic! bestselling cookbook devoted to baking nutritious whole-grain breads is updated with a new chapter on bread machines and original recipes. Always a Choice   THE GREAT IDEAS of the nineteen-seventies haven’t all stood the test of time. You don’t hear a lot about geodesic domes today, or open marriage, or macrame vests. But certain innovations took hold and never went away—not, typically, as mass movements, and not in a big public way, but quietly and steadily, moved along lovingly by individuals whose dedication seems to get a little deeper by the year.   The organic gardening movement, for instance, has unfurled into a global network of activists who advocate a wide spectrum of inter-connected programs like Sustainable Agriculture, Community Supported Agriculture, cooperative urban gardens, and the use of fresh locally-grown produce in school lunches, and who defend the rights of small farmers everywhere, opposing vehemently the use of genetically modified organisms and the patenting of plant and animal species.   Whole-grain bread is another of those new/old “Well, whyever not?” ideas that sprang up alongside solar panels and vegetarianism and went on to win tenure. Not, mind you, that scads of people actually bake it: the workaholism of the last couple of decades, and the seductive availability of not-bad take-out, caught up with just about everyone.   (“Cook?” says one friend, “Not for years. I heat.”)   People may not all bake bread at home, but inspired by the steady influx of good news about the nutritional benefits of whole-grain bread, they do go out of their way to find the best-baked loaves in their areas, and the number of small independent bakeries that specialize in bread made with unrefined flour is steadily growing. The authors of the Laurel’s Kitchen Bread Book know this to be true, because we hear regularly from the bakers themselves, who write to say how grateful they are for this very book.   Why grateful?   Because it is the ONLY guide to baking bread that focuses entirely on whole grain flours and that tells you everything you need to know about how to turn out light, evenly textured loaves that are entirely free of refined flour.   Were we extremists in our desire to push past the faux whole-wheat breads that line today’s supermarket shelves? I’d rather think of us as romantics: because, in fact, a certain kind of romance had attached it...

Product details

• Authors: Carol Flinders, Bronwen Godfrey, Laurel Robertson
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.09.2003
• EAN: 9780812969672
• ISBN: 978-0-8129-6967-2
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 190 mm x 235 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Random House Publishing Group
• Subject: Guides > Food & drink