A few days ago I posted about the recipe for foccaccia from Rose Levy Berenbaum’s Bread Bible. The first few run-throughs were catastrophic but I’ve discovered the secret. The book suggests machine kneading the dough...

I have tried to make the focaccia recipe from Rose Levy Berenbaum’s "Bread Bible" three times: the first time it worked nicely, the latter two times it was a complete catastrophe, despite the fact that I followed the recipe...

or errata before you begin... the focaccia bread recipe in the Bread Bible, for example, fails as written in the book, but succeeds with the erratum, which I printed and inserted into the book. Now, RLB has been known to lurk on...

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This Sunday, I decided to make “Quintessential Corn Muffins” from Rose Levy Bernbaum’s "The Bread Bible," only the second time I’ve used this cookbook. She called for bleached all-purpose flour, specifying...

The salesman had had quite enough of my waffling between two overcoats. Howard Turkell, 60-ish and a garment center veteran, was trying to be polite with the weirdo hipster kid who’d turned up at his third-floor shop that...

Bible and Pie and Pastry Bible really are my baking bibles! Her long-awaited Bread Bible was due to be published in January 2003, but there seems to have been a delay in publication. Rose Levy Beranbaum has said that bread-baking...

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