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Breaking Breads: A New World of Israeli Baking--Flatbreads, Stuffed Breads, Challahs, Cookies, and the Legendary Chocolate Babka Kindle Edition
Israeli baking encompasses the influences of so many regions—Morocco, Yemen, Germany, and Georgia, to name a few—and master baker Uri Scheft seamlessly marries all of these in his incredible baked goods at his Breads Bakery in New York City and Lehamim Bakery in Tel Aviv. Nutella-filled babkas, potato and shakshuka focaccia, and chocolate rugelach are pulled out of the ovens several times an hour for waiting crowds. In Breaking Breads, Scheft takes the combined influences of his Scandinavian heritage, his European pastry training, and his Israeli and New York City homes to provide sweet and savory baking recipes that cover European, Israeli, and Middle Eastern favorites. Scheft sheds new light on classics like challah, babka, and ciabatta—and provides his creative twists on them as well, showing how bakers can do the same at home—and introduces his take on Middle Eastern daily breads like kubaneh and jachnun. The instructions are detailed and the photos explanatory so that anyone can make Scheft’s Poppy Seed Hamantaschen, Cheese Bourekas, and Jerusalem Bagels, among other recipes. With several key dough recipes and hundreds of Israeli-, Middle Eastern–, Eastern European–, Scandinavian-, and Mediterranean-influenced recipes, this is truly a global baking bible.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherArtisan
- Publication dateOctober 18, 2016
- File size35875 KB
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—Food Wine, The Best Cookbooks for 2016
“A delight to contemplate, offering up utterly creative and beautiful challahs, babkas, rugelach, burekas, and pita, with a small array of savory dips, salads, and condiments at the end. It’s baker porn.”
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“Uri Scheft’s new cookbook falls midway between two trends—Old World baking and Israeli cuisine—and the results are deeply satisfying. . . . Scheft’s recipes are fairly simple for a baking book, without the torturously long instructions many traditional methods can include. And there are plenty of sidebars, with tips.”
—Los Angeles Times, Our Favorite Cookbooks of Fall 2016
“Stunning. . . . Scheft, the force behind Lehamim Bakery in Tel Aviv and Breads Bakery in New York, has contributed mightily to the canon of bread-focused books not only for his wizard use of Middle Eastern ingredients but also for helping to create such stunning process and technique photography.”
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“[Scheft’s] generously portioned recipes for basic doughs (e.g., challah, babka, brioche, flatbreads) lend themselves to endless variation, and general home bakers can use them to produce both simple rolls and dramatic, festive loaves. [The book] explains the dough’s look and feel during all stages of preparation and includes plenty of step-by-step photographs to illustrate more challenging braiding, coiling, and other shaping techniques. . . . An essential modern Middle Eastern baking collection featuring delights such as shakshuka focaccia and chocolate rugelach.”
—Library Journal, starred review
“No matter your heritage, this collection will expand your horizons.”
—Minneapolis Star Tribune
“This beautiful book . . . provides a thorough look into the many influences that have shaped the world of Israeli baking . . . full of enough details and photos to encourage even a novice baker to bake.”
—Haaretz.com
“Drawing from his Israeli heritage, childhood love of fresh breads, and global travels, Uri makes the international classics . . . and lesser-known European, Israeli, and Middle Eastern Breads . . . accessible for the home baker. . . . This cookbook is truly a bread baker’s guide to Europe and the Middle East.”
—Bake from Scratch magazine
“A bold and beautiful collection of updated classics and playful riffs.”
—The Forward
“To sample Scheft’s chocolate babka is at once a blessing and a curse: It’ll become an obsession. But thanks to [Breaking Breads] you can make it at home—with the help of step-by-step photograph instructions that ensure babka success.”
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“Uri Scheft is the quintessential Israeli baker. His breads, pastries, and babkas have been blowing my mind
since I first ate them on the sidewalk of his bakery in Tel Aviv. This is the book that I have been yearning to
read."
—Michael Solomonov, author and chef/owner of Zahav
"Uri Scheft's reader-friendly instructions, gleaned from a lifetime of baking, lead would-be bakers into the kitchen. I love this book."
—Joan Nathan, author of King Solomon's Table
“I've been waiting for Uri to reveal the secrets to his incredible babka and chocolate rugelach. He finally reveals them and more in Breaking Breads, which melds Middle Eastern flavors with modern tastes. I'm looking forward to rolling up my sleeves and baking my way through his groundbreaking book.”
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"From challah to kubaneh, burekas to pita, this is the most definitive and important book on Israeli breads and baking."
—Einat Admony, author and chef/owner of Taïm and Balaboosta
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- ASIN : B01BEGV5SY
- Publisher : Artisan (October 18, 2016)
- Publication date : October 18, 2016
- Language : English
- File size : 35875 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 476 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #933,485 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #167 in Middle Eastern Cooking
- #418 in Middle Eastern Cooking, Food & Wine
- #534 in Bread Baking (Kindle Store)
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Customers find the recipes in the book great, helpful, and accessible. They also say the book makes Israeli baking so accessible and tastes good.
"...This is by no means a quick and easy recipe book, but the recipes are very clear, the steps are easy to follow and there are some tips on working..." Read more
"...of the recipes, and all of them are just so easy and uses ingredients that most home bakers would have in their pantry...." Read more
"...I love turning the pages and well, that's me. The recipes are plentiful and explanatory. Love this book!" Read more
"...a few more recipes, the photos are gorgeous and they are new and interesting recipes - but I feel the recipes were not properly vetted for the home..." Read more
Customers find the book's content good for learning, detailed, and useful. They appreciate the great hints and guidance for success. Readers also mention that the stories in both books are great, and the support info is enough.
"...very clear, the steps are easy to follow and there are some tips on working with the dough...." Read more
"...It has amazing tips and guides you so well! Everything you need to know is in there and you fall in love with Uri Scheft and his stories as well...." Read more
"...I love the book style, and photography but it also is full of detailed technique description that made a difference for my baking. Highly recommend." Read more
"...I pour over it deciding which challah to make, etc. This book has it all covered, who, what, where, when and how. Best $ I ever spent...." Read more
Customers find the visuals in the book beautiful. They also mention that there are pictures and steps in the text.
"...There are pictures and steps in this book! Also theres so much more than just baking recipes in here!" Read more
"...I love the book style, and photography but it also is full of detailed technique description that made a difference for my baking. Highly recommend." Read more
"...a little bit in awe of the beauty of this book, and it is indeed beautiful, but personally, I'm getting tired of the memoir/cookbook/gorgeous photo..." Read more
"I wanted to love this book, I did. I even gave it as gifts. It's gorgeous, it's backed by impressive credentials: a famous baker, a beloved cuisine,..." Read more
Customers find the writing and content of the book easy to understand, well written, and clear. They also say the recipes are amazing and great for baking bread at home.
"...This is by no means a quick and easy recipe book, but the recipes are very clear, the steps are easy to follow and there are some tips on working..." Read more
"...I look for a book with clear instructions, impeccable proofreading, and interesting recipes.This book mostly supplies those things...." Read more
"...He has made so many of the recipes, and all of them are just so easy and uses ingredients that most home bakers would have in their pantry...." Read more
"In general I would say it's a good book. It's written in a plain and clear language and it has the thing that I find most important in baking books..." Read more
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"...In fact, this was so worth the investment that after having the Kindle version for a while I bought the hardcover, too." Read more
"...This book has it all covered, who, what, where, when and how. Best $ I ever spent. I love the hardcover books rather than the downloads...." Read more
"...The Babka alone is the the best anywhere and worth the price and real estate of the book!! Bon Appetite!" Read more
"...i love both books a great deal and the instructions for each recipe in each book are all very clear...." Read more
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This book mostly supplies those things. But be warned, most of these recipes not only call for but apparently require the use of a stand mixer -- if you don't have one that can handle stiff doughs, don't buy the book. I also found his instructions to be on the skimpy side. Note there is no instruction for the bread on the cover; he only includes a single, simple style of braiding in the book. It's easy to figure out, but I suspect the ring requires more dough, longer braids, and at least possibly a longer baking time. I'd like to be told that rather than have to wonder and experiment myself -- especially for the bread that graces the cover.
I am also a little bewildered by some of the proofing times. He says his dough should increase in size by 70 percent after a forty minute proof in a "warm kitchen." Honestly, I think the kitchen would have to be in the upper 90s to achieve that kind of proof, if even then. He does not give temperatures in any event, instead instructing the reader to use "cool" water for example. This is not a huge problem for experienced bakers, but I think he could have given some time/temperature starting points.
There also are not a large number of bread recipes, only a few; the remainder is sweets and savory pastries. That's fine, but it is advertised as a bread book and I was hoping for a bit more variety than it offers in that regard.
In sum, if all you are looking for is challah, you can find that in many places, including the Internet. If you are looking for a variety of Israeli/Middle Eastern/Jewish flatbreads, don't expect a lot of that here. If you want precise instructions, those aren't here either. If you don't have a stand mixer and aren't about to get one, this book will be of no use to you. But as an introduction to challah and a manual of other sweet and savory baked items, it's pretty good.
It encompasses the best of my Israeli Nosh experience.
All these old Eastern European staples infused with enough Yiddishkeit to make them irristible!
The Babka alone is the the best anywhere and worth the price and real estate of the book!! Bon Appetite!
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Le livre est en anglais mais assez accessible pour les non bilingues comme moi. Petit plus les ingrédients sont en grammes et pas que en cup comme on peut le trouver généralement dans les livres en anglais.
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