Top baking cookbooks from classic authors and modern pastry chefs are essential for fine-tuning your bread, cake, and pastry skills. We talked to nearly 20 pastry chefs to find the best baking cookbooks for beginners and professionals to keep on the shel
King Arthur Baking Company’s fifth cookbook,King Arthur Baking School,equips readers with the knowledge they need to become better bakers by explaining the hows and whys behind each recipe. The recipes in each chapter are ordered like the lessons at the baking school: from simplest to the most...
From 'The James Beard Cookbook' to Laurie Colwin's 'Home Cooking' memoir and even recipes from New York's famed Magnolia Bakery, these are the best cookbooks for every home cook.
“For Christmas when I was 14, my mother wanted to get me anice cookbook to fuel my interest. She got me a copy ofThe French Laundry Cookbook, based on the recommendation of the store clerk and not knowing anything about it or Thomas Keller,” he says. “Three years later, I was acc...
Cheryl Dayoutlines over 200 brilliant recipes in her instant classicTreasury of Southern Baking. The self-taught baker,New York Timesbestselling cookbook author, and former owner of Savannah's Back in the Day Bakery spotlights the American South through its traditional, from-scratch baked goods and...
Giuseppe Verdi tulips, beauties aren’t they? I thought I might have planted them a little late, as I didn’t get around to it till nearly Christmas. I made Hot Cross buns before I started to feel unwell on Easter weekend. Have you spotted the one Not Cross bun? It might have been...
All the kitchen tools in the world can’t help an uninspired baker, so help them out by gifting a cookbook full of inspiration. What makes “Crumbs: Cookies and Sweets from Around the World” so appealing is its mission to show that sweet treats are for everyone, everywhere. Recipes from...
French Country Cooking: Meals and Moments from a Village in the Vineyardsby Mimi Thorisson will make you want Mimi’s life. This book is one part cookbook, one part château renovation memoir, and one part portrait of French village life. Through photographs, anecdotes and of course, recipes...
His wife shared that she was also a writer and had published a cookbook “Real Food for Real People.” It was a really good morning. Although I have a hard time publicizing my book and talking about it, now I know that my husband does. He told me, “I tell everyone. When I am...
“Having spent all her childhood summers working in a sourdough bakery in France, back before the all the hype, third-generation baker Vanessa Kimbell has a deep love for the loaves. After finding out she was gluten intolerant (it happens, even to bakers) and suffering through four regrettably...