Review: Ho hum
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 29, 2013
This wasn't the best bread book I've ever seen.  Part of it was errors in formatting that were mildly irritating, starting immediately at the table of contents.  The same irritating formatting type errors also plagued the recipes.While the recipes seemed fine, they were ho-hum basic recipes.  Nothing exciting, nothing all that different.  It was definitely just the basics, written for a novice.  I happen to not be a novice, and have baked enough bread that certain recipes, like tortillas, pizza dough, basic French bread, basic white bread, whole wheat loaves and even sweet roll dough don't even require that I get out a measuring cup or recipe to make.  That's also basically what it included too.It isn't a book I'd choose to give a novice either, as there are many much better books to teach the fine art of baking bread.  I was disappointed that the author didn't consider the book important enough to ensure that the book was visually easy to read from the table of contents onward.  I was also disappointed in the "instructable pictures" aspect of the book.  There weren't very many pictures and none showed the more difficult things such as shaping braided loaves, what dough looks like when it's been kneaded long enough, etc.