I don’t shop at Chapters often, and when I do, I tend to shop the very much reduced tables, but my momma had told me about a certain book in the cooking section and asked if I might be interested in a copy, so I headed over there to find the book and see if I might want one, I didn’t after looking at it, it called for to many things that I don’t grow or typically use in the house..

However this book caught my eye, it big, it got to be at least three inchs plus thick, if you stuck it in a bag, you could use it as a weapon folks, its a good hefty book, and then I opened it.. wow, the recipes from around the world, it has yeast bread, flat breads, sour dough breads, sweet breads, quick breads, a whole little chapter on all the different ways to home start your breads ( I am going to try the grape leaf starter this year) and I slid down to the floor and just started reading, which is were DH found me, on the floor reading this book in my lap, and yes, I paid full price for that book, while my DH looked on with horror at the price. It was worth it, I would guess that I make something from it once or twice a month for the past two years.

If you have never baked a day in your life, this is a great book, it has some of the best detailed write ups that are easy to understand in terms of learning to make bread, I like that each recipe gives you three choices on how it’s made -by Hand, by Mixer or by Processor. This means that even if you have bad hands, you can still use this book to make all your own homemade breads.

This book gets a full 5 out of 5, if you don’t make your own bread, might I highly recommend you consider starting to do so.. it is such a simple thing to learn to do and its one of those old fashion skills that should be considered a basic.