Confessions of a French Baker: Breadmaking Secrets, Tips and Recipes | 
 enlarge | Author: Peter Mayle
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 236665
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0316730157
EAN: 9780316730150
ASIN: 0316730157
Publication Date: March 2, 2006
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Look elsewhere March 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am a home baker with a few bread baking books "under my belt". I also love books that tell us about simple pleasures of life. Among them, other books by Peter Mayle.
When buying Confessions... I expected a few stories about the bakery, along the lines of Maggie Glezer's Artisan Baking, or Joe Ortiz's The Village Baker. I thought I would find a few trade tricks, or "secrets" that will help me bring out flavour more successfully. And, maybe as a bonus, one or two interesting recipies, not to mention the atmosphere that was in some earlier works by that author.
If you just began your bread baking adventure, you will not learn from this book enough to succeed. Try Joe Ortiz's The Village Baker, or Daniel Leader's Bread Alone, or Peter Reinhart's Crust and Crumb, or The Bread Baker's Apprentice (for the more detail oriented).
If you read a few bread baking books, and you tried several recipies, you will not learn much from this one. It focuses on direct method and white flour only, so ... look elsewhere.
If you think it will be just a nice story about good life in the south of France, a bit like Year in Provence, or Good Year (the film, not the book)... look elsewhere.
It's not even a good read. It seems a case of an author and publisher milking the former's (ailing ?) brand.
Don't buy it ... sadly look elsewhere.
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