An indispensable bread-making book, The Essential Bread Cookbook brings together a baker’s dozen of the very best recipes for baking bread at home. Included are breads made with yeast and without, from white to whole wheat, and from flat to sweet. Think French-style bread, sourdough, rye bread, raisin bread, brioche, and even lemon bread, as well as many other bread recipes. Taken from the best-selling classic Beard on Bread by James Beard, the “Dean of American Gastronomy,” this is the perfect cookbook for home bakers of all ages—from kids to teens to adults—who want to make and enjoy delicious fresh bread at home.The best recipes from one of America's most influential food personalities in a big, delicious cookbook that delights in every categoryKnown as the Dean of American Cooking, James Beard set a standard of culinary excellence that's still a benchmark today. He was an early television presence who helped shape what America ate in restaurants and cooked at home, and was both an innovative recipe writer and a scholar of American foodways, preserving classic dishes from the past for his readers to cook in the present. Compiled from twelve of his classic books and freshened for a modern audience,The Essential James Beardwill stand with definitive and lively cookbooks such asThe New York Times CookbookandThe Joy of Cooking. It covers the best and most necessary recipes in every category:- appetizers and hors d'oeuvres- soups- pastas and noodlesfish and shellfish- meat and game- rice, potatoes and stuffings- breads- desserts- and more**An indispensable bread-making book,The Essential Bread Cookbookbrings together a baker's dozen of the very best recipes for baking bread at home. Included are breads made with yeast and without, from white to whole wheat, and from flat to sweet. Think French-style bread, sourdough, rye bread, raisin bread, brioche, and even lemon bread, as well as many other bread recipes. Taken from the best-selling classicBeard on Breadby James Beard, the "Dean of American Gastronomy," this is the perfect cookbook for home bakers of all ages—from kids to teens to adults—who want to make and enjoy delicious fresh bread at home.