Nancy Silverton's Breads from the La Brea Bakery: Recipes for the Connoisseur

300 Pages·1996·16.665 MB·English

by  Nancy Silverton

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“All great cooks, of course, are obsessed;
it is what separates great cooks from
good ones. They cook for themselves, to
some inner compulsion, and they are never
satisfied. Great cooks also share another
quality: generosity. You will never meet a
great cook who is stingy. On the other
hand, you are unlikely to meet another
cook as generous as Nancy.”
—FROM THE FOREWORD BY RUTH REICHL
At almost any time of the day, people are lined up on the
sidewalk outside the La Brea Bakery waiting to buy its
extraordinary bread. Connected to Campanile, the suc-
cessful Los Angeles restaurant, the bakery has grown by
leaps and bounds since it opened in 1989. Now Nancy
Silverton, a onetime pastry chef at Michael’s, the original
pastry chef at the world-famous Spago, and today quite
simply the best bread baker in the country, shares her
magical La Brea Bakery recipes, painstakingly crafted
during years of trial and error, here perfected and adapted
for home bakers.
This beautifully illustrated, ultrasophisticated cook-
book is also accessible and user-friendly. Before the bak-
ing even begins, Silverton carefully and lovingly explains
the wonder of bread alchemy: how to grow a yeasted
starter (the secret of truly great bread), and how that
starter interacts with a bread’s other elements to bring
about a firm yet light inside and a crispy. crusty outside.
Then come the recipes, which range irom the whimsical
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Copyright © 1996 by Nancy Silverton
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright
conventions. Published in the United States By Villard Books, a division of
Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by
Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Villard Books is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data is available.
ISBN: 679-40907-6
Manufactured in the United States of America on acid-free paper
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First Edition
BOOK DESIGN BY BARBARA MARKS
PHOTOGRAPHS BY STEVEN ROTHFELD