French baker Apollonia Poilâne's latest cookbook, “Poilâne,” teaches techniques and gives recipes for what to do with all that bread.
, you may already know her story: how her parents died in a 2002 helicopter crash, when she was a teenager, leaving her to run the family business — from her Harvard dorm room.
Not only did she take the helm of the company and graduate with a degree in economics but she and her younger sister, Athena, have also expanded and modernized theAfter a forward by Alice Waters, the first recipe is, of course, for the sourdoughthat made the bakery famous. Apollonia Poilâne takes you through the process, which includes making starter from scratch , proofing, shaping, scoring and baking .
Poilâne is a patient teacher, taking novice bakers through the steps, providing encouragement for instructions that many might find daunting, and including marvelous tips on technique, flours, “baking with all your senses” and stories about growing up and learning how to bake herself.More surprising, however, is that this is not a wonky book, written by one master baker for other master bakers.
This is a pragmatic book about the most basic, even profound, of all staple foods, a fitting read for a time when we have actual bread lines again. Unlike many bread books, which can often read like graduate-level chemistry texts, “Poilâne” is equally useful for both practiced bakers and neophytes tentatively kneading their first loaves.
“He led us through a trapdoor into an old empty grain silo and told us to rub the wall with our fingers to bring out the barley aroma that had been trapped in the wall for decades. Sure enough we could smell, however faintly, the toasted cereal scent, and we marveled at how we could conjure up the past just like that.”Get our weekly Tasting Notes newsletter for reviews, news and more from critics Bill Addison and Patricia Escárcega.
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