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The Great New Zealand Baking Book / The Great New Zealand Birthday Cake Book

Feb 10, 2018
4 min

The Great New Zealand Baking Book / The Great New Zealand Birthday Cake Book

Murray Thom and Tim Harper collect sixty talented New Zealand bakers’ takes on classic bakes, from tarts, roulades, pavlovas, croissants and laminated dough to innovative unrefined / raw desserts, savouries (asparagus, mint and feta bread, scones, spanakopita, quiches, leek and cheese tarts, fritters), biscuits and confections. You’ll find standards like Chelsea buns, roly-poly pudding, slices, Anzac biscuits, lamingtons, and puddings enhanced with tropical touches like mango

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Traditional Jewish Baking

Jan 19, 2017
6 min

Traditional Jewish Baking

As a longtime fan of Anne Taintor and the Brass Sisters, I love anything that combines my love for retro / vintage style with nostalgic and heirloom recipes. Carine Goren, self-taught baker and popular Israeli TV host / cookbook author, combines both of these with aplomb. In “Traditional Jewish Baking,” Carine has taken beloved classics and updated them for modern kitchens. As she writes in the introduction, “If you let me hold your hand, we will master these nostalgic recipe

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Soframiz

Oct 23, 2016
4 min

Soframiz

I've been enamored with Turkish cuisine for as long as I can remember; I love the profusion of little plates full of olives, yogurt-based dips and spreads, oil-stewed veggies and whole grain and bean salads, not to mention the delicious pide, simit, and stuffed flatbreads. Several years ago, a fellow cookbook collector gifted me a copy of Ana Sortun's excellent Spice: Flavors of the Eastern Mediterranean, and I fell instantly and madly in love. Sortun is the executive chef be

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Gennaro's Italian Bakery

Oct 11, 2016
3 min

Gennaro's Italian Bakery

Some of my earliest food memories revolve around the smell and taste of the fresh yeast bread my Polish grandmother would bake in her small apartment kitchen in Michigan…for me, there is no more comforting aroma than that of freshly-baked bread. In a sort of alchemy, humble ingredients are transformed into an expression of baking talent and love. I’ve lived in five countries and visited several others, and sampling local breads and baked goods is one of the first things I set

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Nadiya's Kitchen: Over 100 Simple and Delicious Family Recipes

Sep 17, 2016
4 min

Nadiya's Kitchen: Over 100 Simple and Delicious Family Recipes

I'm probably one of the very few who purchased this cookbook without having ever actually SEEN the Great British Bake-Off or Nadiya on the small screen...chalk that up to several overseas moves and the last couple of years without a TV or cable. However, I was intrigued by the snippets of information out about her debut cookbook, and decided to preorder from the UK. Despite the lack of TV, I regularly follow the careers of former GBBO contestants and own cookbooks by several,

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Blaise the Baker: Dessert First!

Sep 9, 2016
5 min

Blaise the Baker: Dessert First!

As a child, one of my favorite pastimes was voraciously rereading my mother and grandmother’s collection of handwritten recipe cards, recipe clippings, and cookbooks, including Deanna House’s　”House Specialties" and comb-bound community fundraisers from churches, local high schools, and women's organizations. I loved reading the personal stories behind the recipes as much as imagining what the final dish would taste like. My friend and fellow blogger Blaise (the powerhouse be

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The New Sugar and Spice: A Recipe for Bolder Baking

Aug 30, 2016
2 min

The New Sugar and Spice: A Recipe for Bolder Baking

Samantha Seneviratne’s “The New Sugar and Spice” takes classic comfort bakes like cinnamon rolls, cookies, breads and cheesecake and reinvents them, using seductive hits of spice in creative and crowd-pleasing ways. In the introduction, the author points out that “the flood of sugar has diluted real flavor, muffled complexity, and concealed true richness,” so her goal was to create delicious, healthier desserts that use spices in a starring role in place of the overwhelming s

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The Book of Buns

Aug 3, 2016
4 min

The Book of Buns

The secret to great buns has finally been demystified in the lighthearted (and uber-delicious) "The Book of Buns" by Jane Mason, the author of All You Knead Is Bread: Over 50 Recipes from Around the World to Bake & Share. Hint: it's not the gym. From page 9: "If you want firm buns, go to the gym. The joy of buns is the fluffy, soft squishiness of them." And the book's dedication: "To Enrique who loves my buns." Containing over 50 recipes for various types of sweet and savor

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Southern Italian Desserts

Aug 1, 2016
3 min

Southern Italian Desserts

I happened to discover Rosetta Costantino's "Southern Italian Desserts" while researching a trip to Southern Italy. Rosetta, a cooking instructor and author of My Calabria: Rustic Family Cooking from Italy's Undiscovered South, has collected 75 desserts from Calabria, Campania, Basilicata, Puglia, and Sicily. Sure, you'll find cannoli and gelato here, but there are many other regional gems to discover in each chapter; desserts can vary not only from region to region but from

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The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion: The All-Purpose Baking Cookbook A James Beard Award Win

Jul 6, 2016
2 min

The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion: The All-Purpose Baking Cookbook A James Beard Award Win

If you’re a serious home baker, you need to have the King Arthur Flour Baker’s Companion in your collection. Containing foolproof recipes, step-by-step guides, delicious variations, and numerous illustrations, it will walk you through simple baked goods such as pancakes to homemade pie crusts (not as scary or difficult as you might imagine), sourdough starters, Parisian pastries, and sweet and savory pies, tarts, and quiches perfect for any occasion. Please note that this Kin

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Sweet Mornings: 125 Sweet and Savory Breakfast and Brunch Recipes

Apr 22, 2016
8 min

Sweet Mornings: 125 Sweet and Savory Breakfast and Brunch Recipes

Mornings have always been my favorite time of the day – sitting down enjoying a leisurely cup of coffee and a freshly baked treat as the sun streams across the kitchen table is the perfect way to start the day. I have and cherish both of Patty Pinner’s memoir cookbooks, Sweets: Soul Food Desserts and Memories and Sweety Pies: An Uncommon Collection of Womanish Observations, with Pie, and was excited to see that she had a new cookbook coming out that focused on breakfast and b

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Desserts From My Kitchen

Mar 22, 2015
3 min

Desserts From My Kitchen

Lesley Stowe, the creator of one of my favorite snacks Raincoast Crisps, is also a Paris-trained chef who has published several successful cookbooks as well as sharing her tips for cooking and entertaining on shows like Entertainment Tonight Canada and CTV Morning Live. After returning to Vancouver from cooking school in Paris, she noticed that there was a distinct lack of elegant, sophisticated desserts like those found in France and opened a catering business. Her first coo

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Baked: Occasions

Feb 26, 2015
3 min

Baked: Occasions

2015 marked the 10-year anniversary of the stellar Baked: NYC bakery in Red Hook, where classic comfort bakes are given unique twists like chipotle, matcha, and other flavor pairings. This is the fourth cookbook from Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito, the dynamic duo behind Baked: NYC. "Baked: Occasions" celebrates a year in desserts, commemorating both well-known and lesser-known holidays (including World Nutella Day, National Pistachio Day and National Wine Day) alongside oth

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Ovenly: Sweet and Salty Recipes from New York's Most Creative Bakery

Nov 20, 2014
3 min

Ovenly: Sweet and Salty Recipes from New York's Most Creative Bakery

Named Best Bakery in New York City by 2013 Time Out New York Food & Drink Awards, Ovenly explores culinary traditions with an unexpected twist, melding salty and sweet with a touch of spice. Their main goal is to provide joy through flavor, and their first cookbook captures this beautifully. Erin (who inherited her mother and grandmother's handwritten recipe cards) and Agatha (a "refugee in the kitchen" and daughter of Polish immigrants) have created a warm, approachable bo

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Deliciously Vintage - A nostalgic (and delicious!) take on bakes around the globe

Aug 17, 2014
2 min

Deliciously Vintage - A nostalgic (and delicious!) take on bakes around the globe

A baker since a young age, Victoria Glass is an expert cake maker and owner of Victoria's Cake Boutique. The author of Boutique Wedding Cakes: bake and decorate beautiful cakes at home, she was featured in a recent retro-themed issue of the UK magazine Baking Heaven and recently released her second cookbook, "Deliciously Vintage." "Deliciously Vintage" rounds up sixty favorite bakes from around the globe, including a wonderful selection of British standards (Jammy Dodgers, ro

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The Creamery Kitchen

Jul 28, 2014
4 min

The Creamery Kitchen

I recently started making my own cheese with the "One-Hour Cheese: Ricotta, Mozzarella, Chèvre, Paneer--Even Burrata. Fresh and Simple Cheeses You Can Make in an Hour or Less!", and was looking to expand my fledgling cheesemaking to crème fraiche and mascarpone...enter "The Creamery Kitchen." My first exposure to "The Creamery Kitchen" came in the latest issue of the UK baking magazine "Baking Heaven Savoury;" I've discovered several great British cookbooks through the magazi

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The Holiday Kosher Baker

Nov 3, 2013
3 min

The Holiday Kosher Baker

I've long used Joan Nathan's The Jewish Holiday Baker and Marcy Goldman's A Treasury of Jewish Holiday Baking as my standbys in years past, and was very excited to see the upcoming Holiday Kosher Baker. My Polish grandmother was an excellent baker, and made many wonderful yeast breads and pastries, including cheese babkas, that I've been seeking to recapture. Beginning with the gorgeous cover photo with its embossed silver pomegranate edges, this is a beautiful cookbook tha

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The Model Bakery Cookbook

Oct 29, 2013
4 min

The Model Bakery Cookbook

I haven't had the pleasure of visiting the Model Bakery (I briefly visited California for the first time last year), but I learned about their eponymous cookbook on Rick Rodgers' Facebook page (Rick is one of the book's authors; his amazing Kaffeehaus: Exquisite Desserts from the Classic Cafés of Vienna, Budapest, and Prague is one of my favorite pastry books out of the dozens I own). I was instantly drawn in by the many classic recipes for breads, yeasted sweets (croissants,

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Sassy Cookies - Bundt's First Book Blurb!

Sep 14, 2013
2 min

Sassy Cookies - Bundt's First Book Blurb!

Throw out what you thought you knew about flavor pairings; Luane Kohnke's "Sassy Cookies" will take your taste buds on an extraordinary flavor journey through sweet, spicy, and savory ideas inspired by Latin America, Europe, and Asia. In addition to recipes starring cayenne and cherry, chocolate and ginger, goat cheese and caramel, saffron and pistachio, and green tea and almond, you'll pick up handy tips and techniques for working with a variety of traditional doughs as well

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Nosh On This

Sep 13, 2013
4 min

Nosh On This

Lisa Stander-Horel and Tim Horel's "Nosh on This" (an update of last year's self-published "Gluten Free Canteen's Book of Nosh: Baking for Jewish Holidays & More") is a veritable treasure trove of delicious Jewish-American baked goods like mandelbrot, hamantashen, rugelach, babka, and macaroons rounded out with cupcakes (pumpkin with honey buttercream, dark chocolate cinnamon, cherry chocolate, coconut), donuts, fluffy layer cakes, Danish, éclairs, and Austrian-inspired gems

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