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I am a newbie to this journey of bread baking. I stumbled on KAF website, which sparkled a desire to bake easy rolls, quick breads and foolproof recipes. This eventually opened me to the world of bread baking and more specifically artisan bread...and that was barely 3 weeks ago. In my search for a good baking book, I came across the name of Peter Reinhart. For most of you, that name is synonymous to that of a "sommite" (ie the expert, the summun); to me, it meant nothing, until I bought his latest book - Artisan Bread Everyday. Beautiful....just beautiful. Well written, delicious pictures, easy recipes (have only tried one of them so far but I can already tell that Reinhart has gone through a lot of trouble to keep his recipes easy and foolproof and his method efficiently friendly - especially for a clueless baker such as myself). I will not stop at only one recipe, and surely, I will not stop at only this one book. Reinhart has ignited a craze in me to bake more, to learn more, to perfect an art that I thought I could never touch as I was intimidated by the veils of words such as yeast, rising, proofing, flour scale....

Merci Reinhart for the grace of this book, for your passion for dough, and for sharing your savoir-faire to others in something so earthly as baking.