Baking Style: Art Craft Recipes [Hardcover]

Lisa Yockelson (Author)

Book Description

Release date: September 20, 2011

A dazzling celebration of the art and craft of baking

In Baking Style, the award-winning author of Baking by Flavor and ChocolateChocolate, presents what has fascinated her during a lifetime of baking. In 100 essays and more than 200 recipes, along with 166 full-color images, Baking Style is infused with discoveries, inspirations, and exacting but simple recipes for capturing the art and craft of baking at home.

• Lisa Yockelson is the award-winning author of Baking by Flavor and ChocolateChocolate. Her articles, essays, and recipes have appeared in national publications such as the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, and Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture. At her interactive website and blog, bakingstylediary.com, she continues her art of essay-writing and recipe development for a welcoming community of bakers.
• Features 100 essays, more than 200 recipes, and 166 full-color images that invite discovery and inspire the home baker
• Explores bar, hand-formed, and drop cookies; casual tarts; yeast-raised breads; puffs, muffins, and scones; waffles and crepes; tea cakes, breakfast slices, and buttery squares; cakes and cupcakes

Baking Style combines the genre of the culinary essay with recipes, their corresponding methods, and illustrative images, revealing Yockelson's uniquely intimate expression of the baking process.

Editorial Reviews

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Book Excerpts

A Snazzy Bittersweet Chocolate Tea Bread (Click for recipe)

Bundles of Joy (Click for essay on the joys of cookies)

Brown Sugar Toffee Cake (Click for recipe)

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Review

"As Mary Poppins once said: 'practically perfect in every way...an absolutely beautiful book, both inside and out.'" (Dollybakes, March 2012)

"A collection of cakes, cookies and breads that will gladden the heart of any baking enthusiast. It’s an encyclopedic book from an author whose recipes really work!" (New York Times Book Review, December 2011)

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 528 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition (September 20, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470437022
• ISBN-13: 978-0470437025
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 1.4 x 10.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #282,821 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

A graduate of the London Cordon Bleu, Lisa Yockelson is an award-winning cookbook author whose articles, essays, and recipes have appeared in national publications, such as the Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture. As a baking journalist and recipe developer who concentrates on classic and contemporary American as well as European regional baking specialties, Lisa has spent many professional years establishing methods and techniques for flavor-building and texture-polishing baked goods-two compelling areas that have become a hallmark of her research and form the groundwork for two of her last award-winning works, Baking by Flavor and ChocolateChocolate. Baking Style, her latest and most personal baking cookbook, combines the genre of the culinary essay with recipes, their corresponding methods and illustrative images, revealing the author's uniquely intimate expression of the baking process.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars TRYING TO DO SOMETHING NEW MAKES THE BOOK HARD TO USE December 29, 2011

By ireadabookaday VINE™ VOICE

Format:Hardcover

I understand the the author is trying to do something new by melding essays with recipes, but the result is an overwrought, hard to use book.
I liked ( and use) Yockelson's earlier book, Baking by Flavor. That book was well organized and very easy to use, this new one, not so much.

Both the essays and recipe names/descriptions are presented in florid language that just tired me out before I even looked at the recipes
For me, the overwritten essays added nothing, and cute,over the top recipe names like " riot of ingredients break up " and " a 14 year old's rolls still tasty after all these years " told me very little about what I might be making.The book is divided into themes like "dreamyregal" and "contourfanciful" " lushexuberant" and those will not help me use this book. There is just too much cute fluff getting in the way of the recipes.

On the plus side, the book is beautifully designed and the numerous photos are very good, but the whole book is very aggressively PINK and girly.
This might make it even more appealing to some, but it seems to me this is a book destined to be looked at rather than taken into the kitchen and used.
For something more practical and easy to use, try Baking by Flavor.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Baking Book that Begs to Differ November 25, 2011

By George Erdosh

Format:Hardcover

This book begs to be different. Though an excellent baking book, nothing follows the usual and accepted of a standard baking book. It is a beautiful, large-format book, perfectly suitable for the coffee table for guests to browse through its pages. The many full-page color photos are stunning with mouthwatering food examples. This book is not for the beginner though a novice will learn everything about baking in the first 32 pages: ingredients, their role in baking, techniques, the baking process, terminology and equipment. The recipes are a snap to follow but expect to spend some time on most. The author's language and writing is great, and she precedes many recipes with extensive essays. Yet her poetic language often interferes with clear understanding and some instructions are ambiguous even to me (a seasoned baker). The recipe titles are a further problem: many are so convoluted as to be unclear of what you'll try to accomplish. E.g. A Nice, Untidy Torte, #2; Lemon Cake, Sublime and Divine, Lemony Sugar Wash with Glazed Lemon Threads or The Don't-Dispute-Your-Mother Cake. Some ingredients are hard to find and you may also need to upgrade your baking equipment. The well cross-referenced index is excellent.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful book, recipes don't play out. January 8, 2012

By "unknown"

Format:Hardcover

I was so excited to get this book for Christmas. After looking at it in the store I had to hold myself back from buying it. It is a beautiful book with many excellent pictures and a little something more in the "baking diary" entries. However, I have made several recipes from the book and not one has turned out. The worst was the brownies I made. The recipe had many steps and used expensive ingredients. I made them exactly as the recipe said (including four hours of refrigeration time) and they turned out as a giant chocolate mushball! I am now afraid to waste time, energy and money on another of these recipes. All style and no substance I guess.