Bread for All Seasons

By Beth Hensperger

Book Overview

This includes over eighty recipes for tempting, homemade breads, sure to become an integral part of your baking repertoire all year round. Inspired by a wide range of international traditions, and enhanced by a cornucopia of fresh, seasonal ingredients, this stunningly illustrated cookbook brings the joys of baking bread home to your kitchen.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811805980
• ISBN13: 9780811805988
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.4" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

One of my favorite cookbooks!

... This book is a terrific addition to anyone's recipe collection. There is such a wide variety of recipes here, and each is unique and delicious. I love that the recipes are separated by season. This allows me to thumb through and find a light bread (summer, spring) or a heavy one (winter, fall), depending on what I'm looking for. Also, I must mention that this book was my very first attempt at baking bread ever -- and it went off without a hitch! I think Hensperger's book is a must have.

superb collection of recipes

One of the - initially - most unasuming bread baking recipe collections. Once I started to bake breads from this book, it was hard to try a new recipe, and not to repeat the old one: every single one was a clear favorite (for a week, until a new one appearred!). I have a nice collection of bread baking books , but this one holds a very special place. Superb, and so tasty!

A beautiful, readable, homage to bread

I got this book for my birthday and thought, "Oh, well, a cookbook for the coffee table." After a couple of weeks, however, I started to skim through it out of boredom. I could not put it down. The recipes themselves are enough to make this a book well worth having (although they are somewhat complicated and can be intimidating for the beginning bread baker) but the photographs are mouth-watering as well. And the text that accompanies each section of the book, both in the introductions to the seasons and the introductions to each recipe, are essays unto themselves, worthy of note. If the passing of the seasons has meaning for you, for whatever reason, and you like to bake or just eat bread, you NEED this cookbook