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A brilliant, moving meditation on craft and love, and an intimate portrait of baking and our communion with food—complete with seventy-five original recipes and illustrated with dozens of photographs and original hand-drawn illustrations—from the head bread baker of King Arthur Flour.
Yearning for creative connection, Martin Philip traded his finance career in New York City for an entry-level baker position at King Arthur Flour in rural Vermont. A true Renaissance man, the opera singer, banjo player, and passionate amateur baker worked his way up, eventually becoming head bread baker. But Philip is not just a talented craftsman; he is a bread shaman. Being a baker isn’t just mastering the chemistry of flour, salt, water, and yeast; it is being an alchemist—perfecting the transformation of simple ingredients into an elegant expression of the soul.
Breaking Bread is an intimate tour of Philip’s kitchen, mind, and heart. Through seventy-five original recipes and life stories told with incandescent prose, he shares not only the secrets to creating loaves of unparalleled beauty and flavor but the secrets to a good life. From the butter biscuits, pecan pie, and whiskey bread pudding of his childhood in the Ozarks to French baguettes and focaccias, bagels and muffins, cinnamon buns and ginger scones, Breaking Bread is a guide to wholeheartedly embracing the staff of life.
Philip gently guides novice bakers and offers recipes and techniques for the most advanced levels. He also includes a substantial technical section covering the bread-making process, tools, and ingredients. As he illuminates an artisan’s odyssey and a life lived passionately, he reveals how the act of baking offers spiritual connection to our pasts, our families, our culture and communities, and, ultimately, ourselves. Exquisite, sensuous, and delectable, Breaking Bread inspires us to take risks, make bolder choices, live more fully, and bake bread and break it with those we love.
Grand Prize Winner of the 2017 New England Book Festival
Vermont Book Award Finalists
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780062447920 |
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Publisher: | HarperCollins |
Publication date: | 10/31/2017 |
Pages: | 400 |
Sales rank: | 410,800 |
Product dimensions: | 7.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.50(d) |
About the Author
Martin Philip is the head bread baker at King Arthur Flour in Norwich, Vermont. He holds a degree from Oberlin Conservatory and is a MacDowell fellow. He lives in the hills of Vermont with his wife, Julie Ness, his three sweet children, and two chickens.
Table of Contents
Author's Note xiv
Part 1 Recipes and Stories
Breadwright 3
Butter Biscuits 8
Fresh Butter 11
Plum Port Jam 13
Lemon-Blackberry Jam 16
Corn Grit Hoecakes 19
Molasses Pie 21
Oma's Pie Crust 24
Pecan Pie 27
Mama's Bread 31
Bread Pudding 35
Leaving 37
Black-Eyed Peas 40
Cornmeal Drop Biscuits 43
Focaccia 46
Tapenade 51
Basic French Dough 53
Pizza Napoletana 58
Red Sauce 62
Pane Genzano 69
Filone Di Sesame 72
Ciabatta 77
Olive and Rosemary Rustique 81
New York 87
Bagels 91
SOurdough Miche 97
Pain de Seigle 102
Chocolate-Orange Muffins 108
Banana-Pecan Muffins 109
Irish Levain 112
Brioche 120
Brioche Coffee Cake 124
Ginger-Infused Pastry Cream 126
Streusel 127
Poached Pears 128
Vermont 133
Oatmeal Bread 137
Poolish Baguette 143
Straight Baguette 147
Country Baguette 150
Home 157
Fresh-Milled Miche 159
Pain de Mie 166
Cinnamon Rolls 171
Wheat Pancakes 176
Risen Pancakes 178
Ginger Scones 182
ROasted Corn-Chive Scones 185
Fig-Anise Scones 188
Jalapeno-Cheddar Bread 191
Wood's Boiled Cider Bread 196
Carrie's Apple Bread 201
Shortcake Biscuits 205
Strawberry-Rhubarb Compote 207
Spiced Honey Bread 209
Beekeeper's Pain de Mie 212
Roti 217
Lentils 219
Raita 221
Seeded Crackers 223
Romesco 225
Hummus 227
Baba Ganoush 229
Socca 231
Growth and Competition 233
Durum-Rosemary Bread 235
Seeded Sourdough 239
Cranbuck 243
Rustic Walnut Ciabatta 249
Citrus Vollkornbrot 255
Coupe 261
Powerbrot 268
Kvassmiche 274
Boxcar 279
Sunseed 285
Curried Coconut Soup 290
Part 2 Method
Foundations 301
Ingredients 302
Sourdough Culture 306
Measuring Ingredients 311
Baker's Math 314
Fermentation 317
Setting Temperatures 320
Process 325
Mixing 325
Folding 327
Dividing 328
Preshaping 329
Shaping 331
Proofing 338
Scoring 339
Oven 344
Loading 345
Steaming 347
Baking 349
Troubleshooting Topics 353
Tools and Smallwared 357
Acknowledgments 365
Index 371