Beautiful Bread
Pros: easy to follow recipes that yield excellent results
Cons: recipes may be daunting for novice, no completely whole wheat loaves
Pros: easy to follow recipes that yield excellent results
Cons: recipes may be daunting for novice, no completely whole wheat loaves

Pros: Exposure to a different style of baking
Cons: Hard to find ingredients

Pros: Many styles of breads and other preparations (jams, pasta etc)
Cons: Book was not tested with the Zojirushi dual paddle bread maker.

Pros: Some interesting insights from a long-time professional baker and instructor.
Cons: Target audience is ambiguous. Aimed at the home cook new to baking, much of it assumes knowledge and abilities possessed by the experienced bread make
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