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Tartine Bread Hardcover – September 29, 2010

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The Tartine Way - Not all bread is created equal
".The most beautiful bread book yet published..." – The New York Times
Tartine - A bread bible for the home baker or professional bread-maker It comes from Chad Robertson, a man many consider to be the best bread baker in the United States, and co-owner with Elizabeth Prueitt of San Francisco's Tartine Bakery. At 5 P.M., Chad Robertson's rugged, magnificent Tartine loaves are drawn from the oven. The bread at San Francisco's legendary Tartine Bakery sells out within an hour almost every day.
Only a handful of bakers have learned the bread science techniques Chad Robertson has developed: To Chad Robertson, bread is the foundation of a meal, the center of daily life, and each loaf tells the story of the baker who shaped it. Chad Robertson developed his unique bread over two decades of apprenticeship with the finest artisan bakers in France and the United States, as well as experimentation in his own ovens. Readers will be astonished at how elemental it is.
Bread making the Tartine Way: Now it's your turn to make this bread with your own hands. Clear instructions and hundreds of step-by-step photos put you by Chad's side as he shows you how to make exceptional and elemental bread using just flour, water, and salt.
If you liked Tartine All Day by Elisabeth Prueitt, Chad's partner in work and life, and Flour Water Salt Yeast by Ken Forkish, you'll love Tartine Bread! Additional categories for this book include:
- Baking Books
- Baking Recipe Books
- Baking Cook Books
- Bread Recipe Books
- Print length304 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherChronicle Books
- Publication dateSeptember 29, 2010
- Reading age18 years and up
- Dimensions9 x 1.5 x 10.5 inches
- ISBN-100811870413
- ISBN-13978-0811870412
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The Tartine Way
After these magnificent loaves are drawn from the oven, the first cut yields steam and room-filling aroma, exposing a tender interior underneath the burnished crust. From Chad Robertson, winner of the James Beard Award for Outstanding Pastry Chef in 2008, this distinctive bread was developed over a decade of working with the finest artisan bakers in the USA and France, followed by another decade baking in a small wood-fired oven on the Northern California coast.
Now it's your turn to make this bread. Clear instructions and hundreds of step-by-step photos put you by Chad Robertson's side as he shows you how to make exceptional and elemental bread using just flour, water, and salt.
Also included are variations from this master recipe showcasing a wonderfully diverse set of breads and more than 30 sweet and savory recipes using the day-old bread to make sandwiches, classic soups, puddings, delicious baked French toast, and an addictive Kale Caesar.
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Eric Wolfinger is a photographer, surfer, and bread-making apprentice at Tartine Bakery. Like Chad, he lives in San Francisco.
Product details
- Publisher : Chronicle Books; 32315th edition (September 29, 2010)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 304 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0811870413
- ISBN-13 : 978-0811870412
- Reading age : 18 years and up
- Item Weight : 2.91 pounds
- Dimensions : 9 x 1.5 x 10.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,209 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3 in Bread Baking (Books)
- #13 in Celebrity & TV Show Cookbooks
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About the author

James Beard award–winning chef, author, and founder of Tartine, Chad Robertson double- majored in culinary arts and baking and pastry at The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY. In 2002, Robertson moved to California, where he opened Tartine Bakery (with Elisabeth Prueitt) in San Francisco. Chad co-authored Tartine, the bakery book originally published in 2006, and the updated edition, Tartine Revisited, published in 2018. In between, he authored and co-photographed Tartine Bread and authored and photographed Tartine Book No. 3. In 2010, Robertson opened a second location, Bar Tartine, and subsequently photographed and produced a book by the same name together with co-chefs and authors Nick Balla and Cortney Burns. He eventually closed Bar Tartine in order to focus on Tartine Manufactory in San Francisco and expansion into Los Angeles and Seoul, South Korea. Robertson’s first four books were James Beard Foundation award nominees. Tartine now operates three all-day cafes each in San Francisco and Los Angeles neighborhoods along with a baking commissary in both cities and five all-day cafes plus two commissaries in Seoul. In addition, Robertson co-founded Coffee Manufactory, which directly sources green coffee beans from a small group of global farmers, mirroring Tartine’s end-to-end grain-supply chain, which he has built over years of working with West Coast farmers. In 2020, Robertson co-wrote and co-recorded his first original audio book on sourdough bread, together with his friend and Tartine’s longtime director of bread, Jennifer Latham. Robertson and Latham are currently collaborating on a new full-length cookbook that showcases their latest innovations and techniques in bread baking, which will be released in fall 2021.
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 24, 2023

Many times over many years, I tried yet another cookbook's sourdough bread recipe. I don't consider fakes--recipes with yogurt, sourdough with commercial yeast, or sourdough with cups of sugar to feed the sourdough. But not once were the writers of pure sourdough bread confident about their recipes. This was puzzling and disheartening. The best ones warned that the success rate for pure sourdough bread recipe--flour, salt, water -- was iffy. So my random success wasn't just on me. These people don't know what they are doing. Thankfully, I kept the faith.
Then the Revolution in Sourdough Bread making came to me and mine when I found this book on Amazon's website in 2017. Thank you from the bottom of my heart Amazon and Chad Robertson! My husband, not a bread man, is in love with this bread. My daughter, a busy prosecutor, also makes it weekly for her fans! After reading this book and making the Country Loaf perfectly on the first try, I've entered a new era in sourdough baking. It's been 5 years since I bought this book and I'm still excited about it! My sourdough starter has aged and has a lovely rich floral/fruity/Tupelo honey scent. I most often use half King Arthur's all purpose and half Great River dark whole rye to feed it. I also use sprouted spelt flour from One Degree and Great River bread flour.
The reason my sourdough now turns out perfectly is that Robertson gives his readers exhaustive instructions. Each time I get stuck or have a serious question, I sit down and re-read until I figure out my issue. He is the most chill and detailed craftsman I have ever met in print. These two qualities support his success!
One of the main differences between making a commercial yeast loaf and a sourdough loaf is the style of kneading. The yeast loaf does best for me anyway with a lot of hand kneading, or more accurately kneading without any intention of ever stopping until I feel the dough slowly coming together beautifully into its not-so-sticky springy bouncy firm self. It can wear you out! I have machines that can do it but I like the hand made results better.
Kneading sourdough in the same way is a big no-no. When you push down on a big ball of sourdough, you force the acculated air out of the dough and successfully flatten it, possibly for good! It may rise a bit on the second rise, but the final it may not rise much at all.
Robertson's method explains everything. The photographs are beautfully artisitcic and instructive. And, wonderfully, it costs the baker way less muscle work to make sourdough breads. When your sourdough rises into a fluffy bilious mass of very soft dough, instead of kneading by pushing it away from with the heel of your hand, you delicately and deftly run your hand underneath the dough, grab it with your fingers and then pull upwards ever so gently, trying not to pop any bubbles appearing under the surface. Now, fold the dough, laying it delicately over the top. Voila! This sourdough will rise for you.
For those who don't want to read and research to learn, good luck with that! I've been putting meals on the table since childhood and I couldn't have done it without investing time and effort. The rewards have been wonderful.
Check out Chad Robertson on YouTube. You may be both humbled and inspired as I have been.
I've given you a few tips from this Chef's book. There is so much valuable detail there that I keep mine in the kitchen. I'll leave you with this delicious teaser: Why does Chad Roberston burn his loaves?
I started out with some King Arthur Flour recipes available online, and quickly decided I wanted to try my hand at sourdough breads. I followed the instructions over at King Arthur Flour to create a starter, received a little advice from The Fresh Loaf forum, and then decided to buy this book.
As others have written, the book is not one that has hundreds of bread recipes in it, although there are actually quite a few. I have baked two loaves from the book -- the Basic Country Loaf, and the same bread with roasted walnuts. The breads have been amazing. And what is perhaps more exciting, the same dough makes fantastic pizza.
Is it worth the price? Well, it was to me. It was nice to have a set of instructions to read over a bunch of times before taking the plunge into making my first Tartine loaf. Chad Robertson gives a lot of detail, and quite frankly, the instructions are a bit overwhelming and could do with some serious editing. Not because they are confusing, but because they are very lengthy. There is nothing wrong with lengthy; but I encourage anybody reading this book to sit down at their computer and type up those portions of the instructions that they need to bake the basic country loaf, and then print those out. Otherwise you will find yourself needing to turn pages with sticky hands to figure out what you are supposed to do since the recipe spans many pages, and the book is too beautiful and expensive to get dirty.
If you are not familiar with bread baking, but you are willing to commit the time to learning and making this "no knead" bread, you won't be disappointed. But, I would do what I did first, and get a sourdough starter that is working nicely before buying the book. It will only be a huge frustration if you buy the book and never get the starter to work. While he gives instructions for creating a starter, I can't say with certainty that they will work for everybody. You can always try it after you've created your own following the advice from King Arther Flour or another source.
The process for the basic loaf boils down to this:
Take some of your starter (you can take it straight from the fridge, unfed), and build a levain with it. That just means adding water and flour to it, and letting it sit out on the counter for 12 hours or so.
Once the levain is ready (a spoonful of it will float in a bowl of water), you mix the rest of the flour and water and make a very sticky dough, which you will "turn" 4-6 times over the the course of 4 hours. Then you can divide the dough and make pizzas with it, or divide it and shape into loaves which will then "proof" in a bowl or basket, overnight in your fridge. The next morning, you can fire up the oven, and get baking.
He suggests the Lodge Combo Cooker, and that is what I purchased here on Amazon. It is basically two cast iron pans where one acts as a lid to the other, and traps the steam generated from the wet dough as it bakes.
I have never had a problem with my breads burning on top or on bottom, however, if you bake too low on the stove you may find that the bottoms burn. Baking in the middle rack as suggested, has always given me beautiful loaves. I've "scored" my bread (cut it before baking) with a sharp knife or with kitchen shears.
The breads make great grilled cheese, PB&J, toast and that is basically all I have done with them to date. They also taste great fresh out of the oven (well, after waiting a couple of hours).
I've added a photo of one of my best tasting loaves yet. You will see that I baked it rather dark. It does not follow any formula in the book though it is based entirely on the book's process using the same ratio of levain to flour, etc. It is just that altered the percentage of All Purpose, Whole Wheat and Whole Rye flours to suit what I had on hand.
Ken Forkish's Flour Water Salt Yeast is also an excellent book with similar baking techniques (i.e., lodge combo cooker) but has both commercial yeast and sourdough recipes which also come out quite amazing.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 21, 2014
I started out with some King Arthur Flour recipes available online, and quickly decided I wanted to try my hand at sourdough breads. I followed the instructions over at King Arthur Flour to create a starter, received a little advice from The Fresh Loaf forum, and then decided to buy this book.
As others have written, the book is not one that has hundreds of bread recipes in it, although there are actually quite a few. I have baked two loaves from the book -- the Basic Country Loaf, and the same bread with roasted walnuts. The breads have been amazing. And what is perhaps more exciting, the same dough makes fantastic pizza.
Is it worth the price? Well, it was to me. It was nice to have a set of instructions to read over a bunch of times before taking the plunge into making my first Tartine loaf. Chad Robertson gives a lot of detail, and quite frankly, the instructions are a bit overwhelming and could do with some serious editing. Not because they are confusing, but because they are very lengthy. There is nothing wrong with lengthy; but I encourage anybody reading this book to sit down at their computer and type up those portions of the instructions that they need to bake the basic country loaf, and then print those out. Otherwise you will find yourself needing to turn pages with sticky hands to figure out what you are supposed to do since the recipe spans many pages, and the book is too beautiful and expensive to get dirty.
If you are not familiar with bread baking, but you are willing to commit the time to learning and making this "no knead" bread, you won't be disappointed. But, I would do what I did first, and get a sourdough starter that is working nicely before buying the book. It will only be a huge frustration if you buy the book and never get the starter to work. While he gives instructions for creating a starter, I can't say with certainty that they will work for everybody. You can always try it after you've created your own following the advice from King Arther Flour or another source.
The process for the basic loaf boils down to this:
Take some of your starter (you can take it straight from the fridge, unfed), and build a levain with it. That just means adding water and flour to it, and letting it sit out on the counter for 12 hours or so.
Once the levain is ready (a spoonful of it will float in a bowl of water), you mix the rest of the flour and water and make a very sticky dough, which you will "turn" 4-6 times over the the course of 4 hours. Then you can divide the dough and make pizzas with it, or divide it and shape into loaves which will then "proof" in a bowl or basket, overnight in your fridge. The next morning, you can fire up the oven, and get baking.
He suggests the Lodge Combo Cooker, and that is what I purchased here on Amazon. It is basically two cast iron pans where one acts as a lid to the other, and traps the steam generated from the wet dough as it bakes.
I have never had a problem with my breads burning on top or on bottom, however, if you bake too low on the stove you may find that the bottoms burn. Baking in the middle rack as suggested, has always given me beautiful loaves. I've "scored" my bread (cut it before baking) with a sharp knife or with kitchen shears.
The breads make great grilled cheese, PB&J, toast and that is basically all I have done with them to date. They also taste great fresh out of the oven (well, after waiting a couple of hours).
I've added a photo of one of my best tasting loaves yet. You will see that I baked it rather dark. It does not follow any formula in the book though it is based entirely on the book's process using the same ratio of levain to flour, etc. It is just that altered the percentage of All Purpose, Whole Wheat and Whole Rye flours to suit what I had on hand.
Ken Forkish's Flour Water Salt Yeast is also an excellent book with similar baking techniques (i.e., lodge combo cooker) but has both commercial yeast and sourdough recipes which also come out quite amazing.

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There are some lovely photographs, and a cursory glance shows that there are some nice breads to be added to my repertoire.
You know there's a 'but' coming, don't you?
It's very pretentious. Definitely a triumph of style over substance. Yes, some lovely photographs, but I don't want to see pictures of surfers in a book about bread. I think it's extremely self-indulgent and I just can't relate to it at all.
There is a current trendy attitude to bread, with ridiculous, right-on vocabulary to accompany it, and this feeds into that very well. Compared to someone like Andrew Whitely or the wonderfully no-nonsense Patrick Riley, this is just an irritant. The only positive thing I have to say about it, really, is that I am very glad I only bought it on Kindle, because it would not earn its place on my very full cookery book shelf.

This book is the best bread recipe book I came across, by far. The way the techinique is explained in detail and the photos for every step of the eay makes it so easy.
I also loved the story of how the author started as an apprentice and worked for many great bakers. His passion for bread is inspirational. I love this book and I am looking forward to seeing more books like this released in the future.


Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 27, 2019
This book is the best bread recipe book I came across, by far. The way the techinique is explained in detail and the photos for every step of the eay makes it so easy.
I also loved the story of how the author started as an apprentice and worked for many great bakers. His passion for bread is inspirational. I love this book and I am looking forward to seeing more books like this released in the future.




Now I make great sourdough and it’s so easy. You can even leave the dough overnight in the fridge and bake it when it suits you.
Best bread book I’ve ever owned and I have a lot.
One thing you need to know is while you get a good loaf using a conventional oven with some hot water in a tray to create steam, you get a fantastic loaf using a Dutch Oven .


Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 2, 2018
Now I make great sourdough and it’s so easy. You can even leave the dough overnight in the fridge and bake it when it suits you.
Best bread book I’ve ever owned and I have a lot.
One thing you need to know is while you get a good loaf using a conventional oven with some hot water in a tray to create steam, you get a fantastic loaf using a Dutch Oven .


The book itself is a joy to hold with a soft and tactile cover. Inside is well laid out with some lovely artistic photos of the process. The main sourdough recipe is given in great detail and is followed by a section that discusses each step in much more detail. I found that very useful.
The resulting bread was really nice. Even my first bake was a real success and subsequent bakes, with guidance from the book enabled me to tune the bread to how I liked.
Negative points ? The artistic photos are lovely, however B&W photos maybe are less clear than colour. (Look lovely tho). Also only half the book is recipes for bread and half is about what to do with leftover bread. Leftover sourdough bread? In my family ? Never!
All in all though, this is a lovely book. It’s both informative and interesting and a really good guide for budding sourdough’ers.
The bread is pretty tasty too!
