Rick Bayless
Chef: Frontera/Topolo/Xoco/Leña, 7 Beard Awards,9 Ckbks,4 Emmy noms 4 Mexico-1 Plate @ a Time,Top Chef Masters winner,Recipient of Mexico's Order of Aztec Eagle
Book Recommendations:
Recommended by Rick Bayless
“Look what just arrived! @gregwadebakes new book. They guy who’s responsible for all the @publicanqualitybread has written a gutsy, captivating book, sharing the beauty of his craft. Congratulations, Greg! https://t.co/R6Tel3wET8” (from X)
by Greg Wade, Rachel Holtzman·You?
by Greg Wade, Rachel Holtzman·You?
One of Food Networks Best Cookbooks of 2022 • One of Vice's Best Cookbooks of 2022 • One of BookPage's Best Cookbooks of 2022. A groovy master class in healthy, sustainable, naturally delicious breads from a star of the new bread renaissance. Greg Wade is an expert in the out-of-this-world tastes and textures of long-fermented, hand-shaped breads. The recipient of the James Beard Award for Outstanding Baker (2019) is committed to spreading the love for local, organic flours and long-fermented sourdough loaves far and wide as he kneads, stretches, and proofs his signature loaves each day at Publican Quality Bread in Chicago. Bread Head is his guide to making all your favorite professional-level breads, cakes, and pastries at home. Bread Head takes home cooks through foundational recipes like Farmhouse Sourdough and Marbled Rye down a winding road to unexpected and delicious bakes. Sorghum and Rosemary Ciabatta, Wheat Neapolitan Pizza Dough, Ethiopian Injera, Indian Parathas, and Georgian Khachapuri will become welcome new staples in your culinary repertoire. For those with a sweeter tooth, try Greg’s Buckwheat Brownies, Wheat Brioche, and Cornmeal Whoopie Pies. Through accessible, teachable recipes that include baker’s percentages and capture the importance of hydration and hand-shaping, Greg will improve your baking know-how, confidence, and zeal in the kitchen. The science and technique are all here: Go forth and explore the infinite universes of delights in each of Greg Wade’s inventive recipes. 75 color photographs
Recommended by Rick Bayless
“Success!! I know we all bought the @zingermansbakehouse baking book because we wanted the recipe for the Sour Cream Coffee Cake. It works! Beautiful book, more than just recipes. Made brunch for my incredible visiting niece. @gracietucker_ , we love you! https://t.co/zb6fZj7Shl” (from X)
by Amy Emberling, Frank Carollo, Antonis Achilleos·You?
by Amy Emberling, Frank Carollo, Antonis Achilleos·You?
This is the must-have baking book for bakers of all skill levels. Find your favorite Bakehouse recipes: Since 1992, Michigan's renowned artisanal bakery, Zingerman's Bakehouse in Ann Arbor, has fed a fan base across the United States and beyond with their chewy-sweet brownies and gingersnaps, famous sour cream coffee cake, and fragrant loaves of Jewish rye, challah, and sourdough. It's no wonder Zingerman's is a cultural and culinary institution. To coincide with its 25th anniversary, Bakehouse co-owners Emberling and Carollo have crafted a cookbook that intimately blends the business's unique history and philosophy of service with never-before-published recipes for its best-loved baked goods.Features 65 meticulously tested, carefully detailed recipes in a beautiful hardcover book.Showcases more than 50 color photographs and bountiful illustrations. Includes behind-the-scenes stories of the business that enrich this collection of best-of-kind, delicious recipes for every "I can't believe I get to make this at home!" treat.Notably, the book includes a wealth of traditional Hungarian and Jewish foods. Bring home delicious and enjoy the Zingerman's classics (and discover new favorites!) in your very own kitchen.Contains 8 chapters featuring various topics that are full of fantastic recipes, as well as a recipe index so you can quickly find the one you're looking. Makes an excellent gift for any fan of Zingerman's or anyone who appreciates a good bakery treat.
Recommended by Rick Bayless
“Annie Novak explores every imaginable detail of how to turn any community’s acres of unused rooftops into deliciously productive gardens. This book has already become an invaluable resource to our restaurant crew as we search for new ways to expand our rooftop production.” (from Amazon)
by Annie Novak·You?
If you’d like to grow your own food but don’t think you have the space, look up! In urban and suburban areas across the country, farms and gardens are growing atop the rooftops of residential and commercial buildings. In this accessible guide, author Annie Novak’s passion shines as she draws on her experience as a pioneering sky-high farmer to teach best practices for raising vegetables, herbs, flowers, and trees. The book also includes interviews, expert essays, and farm and garden profiles from across the country, so you’ll find advice that works no matter where you live. Featuring the brass tacks on green roofs, container gardening, hydroponics, greenhouse growing, crop planning, pest management, harvesting tips, and more, The Rooftop Growing Guide will have you reimagining the possibilities of your own skyline.
Recommended by Rick Bayless
“A must-have resource for any student of the stove, On Food and Cooking synthesizes details from a wide variety of scientific disciplines and gastronomic traditions, sparking the reader's culinary imagination with every turn of the page. Harold McGee possesses that most rare combination: a scientist's skill and a cook's heart.” (from Amazon)
by Harold McGee·You?
by Harold McGee·You?
An award-winning kitchen classic for over 35 years, and hailed by Time magazine as "a minor masterpiece" when it first appeared in 1984, On Food and Cooking is the bible which food lovers and professional chefs worldwide turn to for an understanding of where our foods come from, what exactly they're made of, and how cooking transforms them into something new and delicious. For its twentieth anniversary, Harold McGee prepared a new, fully revised and updated edition of On Food and Cooking. He has rewritten the text almost completely, expanded it by two-thirds, and commissioned more than 100 new illustrations. As compulsively readable and engaging as ever, the new On Food and Cooking provides countless eye-opening insights into food, its preparation, and its enjoyment. On Food and Cooking pioneered the translation of technical food science into cook-friendly kitchen science and helped birth the inventive culinary movement known as "molecular gastronomy." Though other books have been written about kitchen science, On Food and Cooking remains unmatched in the accuracy, clarity, and thoroughness of its explanations, and the intriguing way in which it blends science with the historical evolution of foods and cooking techniques. Among the major themes addressed throughout the new edition are: · Traditional and modern methods of food production and their influences on food quality · The great diversity of methods by which people in different places and times have prepared the same ingredients · Tips for selecting the best ingredients and preparing them successfully · The particular substances that give foods their flavors, and that give us pleasure · Our evolving knowledge of the health benefits and risks of foods On Food and Cooking is an invaluable and monumental compendium of basic information about ingredients, cooking methods, and the pleasures of eating. It will delight and fascinate anyone who has ever cooked, savored, or wondered about food.