Tis the season for all things festive! This holiday wreath bread is a very simple loaf that is gorgeous and will be the perfect addition to your holiday meal. Despite its impressive appearance I promise it’s easy to make. Check out the video from WMAR Channel 2 in Baltimore (the ABC affiliate) for a demo (click here to view).
Now for the Holiday Wreath Bread, and some Holiday gift suggestions: Read More
My book had great coverage in “The Week” magazine on April 18, 2008 (page 30 in the paper version). But their version of the recipe has you throwing in 4 cups of water, rather than the correct 3 cups (see the fine print on the right, above). Please use 3 cups, or you’ll have pancake batter! The correct version of the basic recipe from The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day can be found here (click to view).
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From today’s review: “From all the fuss, you’d think that… Hertzberg had invented sliced bread, or maybe bread itself …delivers what it promises, which is a great gift to home cooks who have the desire to bake but worry that they don’t have the time or skill.”
Sylvia Carter, New York Newsday
Zoe and I were interviewed last month by Rick Nelson, food writer at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and the article came out on December 6, 2007. Rick was more than kind to us: “…If holiday gift-givers are aiming to buy one new cookbook title for the bakers in their lives, they should look no further than the remarkable Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day… Hertzberg and Francois should have called their burst of genius Breadmaking for Dummies — that’s how user-friendly it is… their master recipe is wildly flexible, generously adapting to a wide range of breads, pizzas, flatbreads and pastries.” Read the entire review.
We’re just as excited about Jenni Pinkley’s fantastic video that she shot for the paper’s website. Astute and attentive viewers will note Zoe’s incisive comment as the video closes. Click here to see the video. Speaking of video, I think Martha Stewart was talking about us when she interviewed legendary cookbook editor Judith Jones on The Martha Stewart Show that aired last week. Martha asked Judith (who edited Julia Child and James Beard) “what do you think of this wet bread that you hardly let rise, you hardly do anything to it, you just sort of put it in the oven?” Judith wasn’t buying; she told Martha that “kneading is the fun of making bread.” Martha asked her “I know, but what if you don’t have to?”
Couldn’t have said it better ourselves. See the video (click on the “video” tab once you get there; Martha brings up bread at 2:15 into the video).
“Soon the bread will be making itself….The crusty, full-flavored loaf that results may be the world’s easiest yeast bread.”
Nick Fox from the New York Times
The Associated Press also covered us in an article that ran all over the U.S:
