"I bake because it connects my soul to my hands, and my heart to my
mouth."-Martin Philip 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.
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