The owner of Dartmouth’s famous Carved Angel restaurant provides 50 easy-to-follow bread recipes developed throughout generations from all over the world. With recipes for baguettes, naan, and Portuguese corn bread, you won’t need to buy bread from the supermarket again.

Convinced that modern bread did not measure up to the substantial, tasty and healthy originals developed by generations of bakers in Europe, Asia and the US, Tom Jaine constructed a traditional wood-fired brick oven and began baking loaves for his local village. This book is a distillation of his incredible knowledge and proves that baking delicious bread is an art anyone can master.

From kneading the dough to baking it, Tom Jaine first covers the essential techniques of baking, explaining what needs to be done, when and why. Then, in a round the world baking tour, he guides us through the variations in these techniques that have produced the many breads available today.

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Probably my hero. Husband gave this bread bible when he realised I loved baking bread. It opened up my eyes to the vast variety of breads there are throughout different cultures. I think I've made every single loaf in there... favourite will always be French Hearth bread... that soft ladder of joy!