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Cooking & Food· United States

Flour Water Salt Yeast

by Ken Forkish
Aggregate Editorial Score15/100
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Published 2012272 pagesEnglish
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About This Book

Few works of cooking & food have earned the sustained critical attention that Flour Water Salt Yeast (2012) by Ken Forkish continues to receive. Ken Forkish's comprehensive guide to artisanal bread and pizza baking at home, emphasising the importance of quality ingredients, long fermentation, and patient technique. A James Beard Award winner that has become the standard home baking reference. Themes of bread baking, sourdough, fermentation run through the work. The book has received recognition from James Beard Award 2013.

Book Details

AuthorKen Forkish
Published2012
Country of Origin🇺🇸 United States
LanguageEnglish
Pages272
Category🍳 Cooking & Food
ISBN9781607742739
Editorial Score15/100
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Editorial Assessment

Flour Water Salt Yeast is the book that taught a generation of home bakers to make genuinely excellent bread. Forkish's patient, detailed approach to long fermentation and high-hydration doughs demystified artisanal baking without dumbing it down. Its James Beard Award was well deserved.
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Ken Forkish is a United States author whose work in cooking & food has earned recognition from readers and critics alike.

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Flour Water Salt Yeast by Ken Forkish is a comprehensive guide to artisanal bread and pizza baking at home, emphasising quality ingredients, long fermentation, and patient technique.

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Flour Water Salt Yeast was written by Ken Forkish, an American baker and James Beard Award-winning author. First published in 2012.

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