Warren Lee Cohen is a long time Waldorf teacher and teacher educator. He has been baking bread and building bread ovens with communities around the world for over 40 years. In the process he has been sharing his love of the artful loaf and collecting mealtime blessings from all the cultures he encounters. His other publications include Waldorf Book of Blessings, Dragon Baked Bread and Raising the Soul.
Description
Introduction: how to use the book; Homemaking: children and baking – why bake? Bread stories; 38 Recipes; Baking Tips, ingredients and measures; Bread songs, poems and blessings; Bread projects: building an oven, sculptures, decorations, secret message buns, bakery and farm visits; Enlivening the senses; Baking at school; Seven grains and nutrition; Factory bread, wheat sensitivities, allergies and coeliac disease; Gluten free recipes for blinis, brown loaves, churros, focaccia, flatbread, Irish farls, pizza base, soda bread, sweet potato and squash doughnuts; Biodynamic, organic and heritage wheats – reclaim the grain, fresh grains and rebuilding the local bread economy and culture; Index; Resources
Reviews
Baking bread at home is a wonderful thing to do – and becomes a profound experience for all when shared with children. This delightful book provides the ideal guidelines and inspiration. I strongly recommend it!
Mollie Katzen, author of The Moosewood Cookbook
Let’s bake! Promise a child there will be baking and get stuck in!
Tom Herbert, baker, The Long Table, from the Foreword
Sure to nourish body, mind and spirit.
Edmund Espe Brown, Tassajara Bread Book