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Are we in the glorious final days of the physical cookbook, just as interest in the ancient art of sourdough baking is at an all-time high? Hopefully not. But if we are, let’s celebrate what makes cookbooks, especially bread cookbooks, so essential on our kitchen counter...an exploration of counterculture if you will.For bread bakers and all lovers of cookbooks, the Bake This Book podcast discusses the bread cookbooks that will be your reference for years to come.Join Erik Fabian, home baker and cookbook lover, for conversations about naturally leavened breads, with detours into pastry, pizza, and bread culture. In each episode, we invite authors to talk about their inspirations, their favorite baking tips and the impact cookbooks have had on their lives.

  1. vor 29 m

    Mara Ripani - The Baker’s Percentage: The Simple Formula for Making Perfect Sourdough Bread at Home

    Erik Fabian talks with Mara Ripani about her new cookbook, The Baker’s Percentage: The Simple Formula for Making Perfect Sourdough Bread at Home. Mara Ripani is an Italian-Australian sustainability educator focused on culture change in ecology, nature literacy, and food appreciation. She teaches cooking and baking masterclasses at Village Dreaming, the permaculture farm she co-founded with her partner, Ralf, in Victoria, Australia. Together they have built multiple kitchens, a large vegetable garden, and several orchards to teach people the value of slowing down, growing food, and living with nature. The Baker’s Percentage is an unusual cookbook: it has no traditional recipes. Instead, it encourages readers to bake bread with autonomy and confidence, according to their own needs and schedule. With chapters on Flour, Starters & Leaven, Mixing & Kneading, Bulk Fermentation, Dividing, Shaping & Proofing, Baking, and more, it’s a comprehensive guide to baking bread whatever way suits you. We talk about tips for making better bread, bread culture in Australia, where permaculture and sourdough overlap, and how a bit of easy baker’s math can free you to make any bread you like. Where to buy Mara's books: https://www.rizzoliusa.com/buy-online/9781923239791/More about Mara Ripani: villagedreaming.com.auIG: @maravillagedreaming More About Sourhouse: sourhouse.coIG: @lifeatsourhouseWhat sourdough cookbook author should we talk to next? Send your feedback & suggestions to: podcast@sourhouse.co -- Download your free Sourhouse Community Cookbook: https://sourhouse.co/community-cookbook -- Bake This Book is a trademark of Sourhouse LLC.

    Mara Ripani - The Baker’s Percentage: The Simple Formula for Making Perfect Sourdough Bread at Home
  2. vor 5 Tagen

    Andrew Janjigian - Breaducation: The Science and Practice of Baking Bread at Home

    Erik Fabian talks with Andrew Janjigian about his new cookbook, Breaducation: The Science and Practice of Baking Bread at Home. Andrew Janjigian is the head baker at Wordloaf, the twice-weekly, IACP-nominated newsletter about bread, grain, and baking that he launched in April 2020. Before that he spent eleven years as a test cook and senior editor at Cook's Illustrated and America's Test Kitchen, where he developed more than a hundred recipes, including a good share of the company's best-known bread and pizza formulas. He has written for Serious Eats, King Arthur Baking, Epicurious, ChefSteps, Edible Boston, Anova, and Ooni; he self-published The Bread Baker's Pocket Companion; and he invented the sourdough starter whisk. He has lived and baked in Cambridge, Massachusetts for close to thirty years. Breaducation is a complete guide to the science behind home bread baking, with more than fifty recipes. It follows one loaf's journey from flour to cooling rack. We talk about a ton of tips for making better bread, the bread "truths" he found to be false, choosing the right words to teach baking, and how this book came to be after years of writing online. Where to buy Andrew's books: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737132/breaducation-by-andrew-janjigian/https://shop.wordloaf.org/category/booksMore about Andrew Janjigian: wordloaf.orgIG: @wordloafMore About Sourhouse: sourhouse.coIG: @lifeatsourhouseWhat sourdough cookbook author should we talk to next? Send your feedback & suggestions to: podcast@sourhouse.co -- Download your free Sourhouse Community Cookbook: https://sourhouse.co/community-cookbook -- Bake This Book is a trademark of Sourhouse LLC.

    Andrew Janjigian - Breaducation: The Science and Practice of Baking Bread at Home
  3. 27. Okt.

    Edward Espe Brown - The Tassajara Bread Book (55th Anniversary)

    Erik Fabian talks with Edward Espe Brown about his classic guide to baking and Zen, The Tassajara Bread Book. Edward Espe Brown is a Zen priest, meditation instructor, teacher of vegetarian cooking classes, and the author of a long list of books about food and Zen. He was the first head cook at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, the San Francisco Zen Center's mountain monastery and retreat center. His teacher, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, ordained Edward as a priest in 1971. In the years since, Edward helped found Greens Restaurant in San Francisco, co-wrote The Greens Cookbook with Deborah Madison, and has written several other cookbooks, including The Complete Tassajara Cookbook and Tomato Blessings and Radish Teachings. He edited Not Always So, a collection of Suzuki Roshi's lectures, and in 2007 he was the subject of How to Cook Your Life, a critically acclaimed feature-length documentary directed by Doris Dörrie. We gather to discuss his best-selling The Tassajara Bread Book. First published in 1970, it became the bread bible for a generation of bakers, and in 2025 it was celebrated with a 55th anniversary edition, with a new foreword by Sarah Owens. We talk about tips for baking with mindfulness, the connections between baking and religion, feeding people at a monastery, the childhood experience that inspired him to bake bread, the book's impact over 55 years, and the pursuit of perfection in baking. Where to buy Edward's books: https://peacefulseasangha.org/shop/More about Edward Espe Brown: peacefulseasangha.orgMore About Sourhouse: sourhouse.coIG: @lifeatsourhouseWhat sourdough cookbook author should we talk to next? Send your feedback & suggestions to: podcast@sourhouse.co -- Download your free Sourhouse Community Cookbook: https://sourhouse.co/community-cookbook -- Bake This Book is a trademark of Sourhouse LLC.

    Edward Espe Brown - The Tassajara Bread Book (55th Anniversary)
  4. 20. Okt.

    Andrew Coe - American Bread: A History

    Erik Fabian talks with Andrew Coe about his new book, American Bread: A History. Andrew Coe is a Brooklyn-based writer and independent scholar of American food history. He and his wife, Jane Ziegelman, wrote A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression, which won a James Beard Award. His Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States was a Beard finalist and was named one of the Financial Times' best food books of the year. From 2010 to 2014 he wrote the "Good Bread" column for Serious Eats New York, covering the city's artisan bakeries. American Bread: A History is out now from University of California Press. American Bread traces bread in the United States from early European settlers' first encounters with corn to the pandemic sourdough boom. Along the way it explains how supermarket white bread came to dominate our tables, introduces the nineteenth-century reformer who launched the whole-grain movement, and makes the case for no-knead bread. It also includes more than a dozen historical recipes for home bakers. We talk about how Andrew researches bread history, how sourdough has changed over the centuries, what it's like to bake from historical recipes, and how America's idea of the perfect loaf has evolved. Buy The Book: Buy direct from University of California Press and save 30% with code: UCPSAVE30More About Andrew Coe : IG: @andrewcoeauthorMore About Sourhouse: sourhouse.coIG: @lifeatsourhouseWhat sourdough cookbook author should we talk to next? Send your feedback & suggestions to: podcast@sourhouse.co -- Download your free Sourhouse Community Cookbook: https://sourhouse.co/community-cookbook -- Bake This Book is a trademark of Sourhouse LLC.

    Andrew Coe - American Bread: A History
  5. 13. Okt.

    Samuel Fromartz - In Search of the Perfect Loaf

    Erik Fabian talks with Samuel Fromartz about his 2014 memoir, In Search of the Perfect Loaf: A Home Baker's Odyssey, and how his baking has evolved in the 12 years since. Sam Fromartz is a journalist who has spent four decades covering food, farming, and the environment. He started at Reuters in the mid-1980s, wrote for Fortune, Inc., the New York Times, and the Washington Post, and in 2011 co-founded the Food & Environment Reporting Network, the nonprofit newsroom he led as editor-in-chief until 2023. He is the author of two books: Organic, Inc. in 2006, and In Search of the Perfect Loaf in 2014, which won the IACP award for literary food writing. He lives in Washington, D.C., where he bakes all his family's bread. In Search of the Perfect Loaf began in 2009 with a magazine assignment to work in a French boulangerie. That trip set Sam on a years-long pursuit: first of a better homemade baguette (one that eventually won a "Best Baguette of D.C." contest against professional bakeries), then of bread itself. He baked sourdough in California, rye in Berlin, and country loaves in the South of France, and talked with millers, farmers, wheat breeders, and fermentation scientists along the way. We talk about tips for baking with freshly milled flour, why bakers are so fascinated by the baguette, how his baking has changed since writing the book, and what his perfect loaf is today.   Where to buy Sam's book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/309299/in-search-of-the-perfect-loaf-by-samuel-fromartzMore about Sam Fromartz: chewswise.comIG: @fromartzMore About Sourhouse: sourhouse.coIG: @lifeatsourhouseWhat sourdough cookbook author should we talk to next? Send your feedback & suggestions to: podcast@sourhouse.co -- Download your free Sourhouse Community Cookbook: https://sourhouse.co/community-cookbook -- Bake This Book is a trademark of Sourhouse LLC.

    Samuel Fromartz - In Search of the Perfect Loaf
  6. 10. Sept. ·  Bonus

    Rose Wilde: Bread and Roses (Live at the 2026 Kneading Conference)

    A bonus episode recorded live at the 2026 Kneading Conference in Skowhegan, Maine! Erik Fabian talks with Rose Wilde about her cookbook, Bread and Roses: 100+ Grain Forward Recipes featuring Global Ingredients and Botanicals. Rose Wilde is a Los Angeles chef and writer who grew up in Ecuador, trained as an actor, and practiced human rights law before turning to baking. In 2011 she founded Red Bread, a microbakery that started with bike deliveries and grew into a stand at the Santa Monica Farmers Market; she has since led pastry and bread programs at LA restaurants. She is a Master Gardener and Master Food Preserver, and she co-hosts the Kitchen Tape Podcast. Bread and Roses was named a Best Book of 2023 by both the Los Angeles Times and Bon Appétit. It is a guide to "brown-flour" baking built on whole grains from around the world, with recipes organized by the regions associated with each grain and many that fold in flowers and other botanicals. Erik and Rose talk about baking with whole grains and botanicals, training your palate to taste subtle flavors, using sourdough in pastry, and why learning to bake your own bread matters. Where to buy Rose's book: Eat Red Bread StoreMore about Rose Wilde: eatredbread.comKitchen Tape PodcastEat More SubstackIG: @trosewildeMore About Kneading Conference kneadingconference.com@mainegrainalliance@mainegrainsMore About Sourhouse: sourhouse.coIG: @lifeatsourhouseWhat sourdough cookbook author should we talk to next? Send your feedback & suggestions to podcast@sourhouse.co -- Download your free Sourhouse Community Cookbook: https://sourhouse.co/community-cookbook -- Bake This Book is a trademark of Sourhouse LLC.

    Rose Wilde: Bread and Roses (Live at the 2026 Kneading Conference)

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Are we in the glorious final days of the physical cookbook, just as interest in the ancient art of sourdough baking is at an all-time high? Hopefully not. But if we are, let’s celebrate what makes cookbooks, especially bread cookbooks, so essential on our kitchen counter...an exploration of counterculture if you will.For bread bakers and all lovers of cookbooks, the Bake This Book podcast discusses the bread cookbooks that will be your reference for years to come.Join Erik Fabian, home baker and cookbook lover, for conversations about naturally leavened breads, with detours into pastry, pizza, and bread culture. In each episode, we invite authors to talk about their inspirations, their favorite baking tips and the impact cookbooks have had on their lives.

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