Tartine Bread

For the home or professional bread-maker, this is the book of the season. It comes from a man many consider to be the best bread baker in the United States: Chad Robertson, co-owner of Tartine Bakery in San Francisco, a city that knows its bread. To Chad, bread is the foundation of a meal, the center of daily life, and each loaf tells the story of the baker who shaped it. He developed his unique bread over two decades of apprenticeship with the finest artisan bakers in France and the United States, as well as experimentation in his own ovens. Readers will be astonished at how elemental it is. A hundred photographs from years of testing, teaching, and recipe development provide step-by-step inspiration, while additional recipes provide inspiration for using up every delicious morsel.

From the Publisher

The Tartine Way

After these magnificent loaves are drawn from the oven, the first cut yields steam and room-filling aroma, exposing a tender interior underneath the burnished crust. From Chad Robertson, winner of the James Beard Award for Outstanding Pastry Chef in 2008, this distinctive bread was developed over a decade of working with the finest artisan bakers in the USA and France, followed by another decade baking in a small wood-fired oven on the Northern California coast.

Now it’s your turn to make this bread. Clear instructions and hundreds of step-by-step photos put you by Chad Robertson’s side as he shows you how to make exceptional and elemental bread using just flour, water, and salt.

Also included are variations from this master recipe showcasing a wonderfully diverse set of breads and more than 30 sweet and savory recipes using the day-old bread to make sandwiches, classic soups, puddings, delicious baked French toast, and an addictive Kale Caesar.

Praise for Tartine Bread

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Chronicle Books; 1st (first) , 1st (first) edition (Sept. 15 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0811870413
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0811870412
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 1.32 kg
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 22.86 x 3.81 x 26.67 cm