Breadsong: How Baking Changed Our Lives

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It evoked such a smell and image of freshly made bread that I had to pause reading it to make my own loaf so that I could continue reading with some warm fresh bread with an inch of butter melting slowly into it. Each of the recipes is laid out beautifully - I love that there is a different font for the chat at the start, and the ingredients, and the recipe itself. It's the sort of book that makes me think "maybe I could be a baker and make bread all the time and bring joy to people!

In 2018, Kitty was at school and Al worked at Oxford University, but when Kitty became so ill she couldn't leave the house, the two discovered baking and, in particular, sourdough. The different fonts make the dual authorship work really well, there's lovely pictures and photos throughout, and I really did sit and read the 150-odd pages in one day, because I started and then I had to keep going. The first 152 pages of this book are absolutely not my thing; they're well written, but simply don't interest me. It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance.

A journey which very much speaks to my own family’s experience and which has helped me enormously as a floundering parent in unchartered waters. Her dad Al reached out by making one loaf of bread Kitty saw the dough become alive sparking an interest in her. One day her dad Alex, a teacher, baked a loaf of bread with her and that small moment changed everything. I actually finished reading the memoir part of this book a couple of weeks ago - the day I received it in fact. I really loved reading this memoir and was totally obsessed by it (I read it over two days and probably also dreamt about it at night).

Featuring more than 80 recipes-including cinnamon buns, cheese swirls, and tahini brownies- Breadsong is a celebration of bread and baking, and an inspiring story of the life-saving power of discovering a passion. Young Kitty’s sudden struggles with anxiety and depressive thoughts take a backseat to her newly-discovered enthusiasm and knack for bread baking, a talent that ends up becoming a business run by her and her dad. Then, one day, as Kitty stood on a stool watching her dad mix flour, water, and salt, she determined Al's gloopy, sludgy blob of bread looked a whole lot like her brain. Kitty, at 14 quickly spiralled from bubbly teen into a dark depression and her family gave their all to help her. This book is an inspirational true story of a teenagers battle with extreme depression, breadmaking saved her.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It follows what grew from baking a few loaves together to calm her mind to finding an incredible talent for bread making and opening a village bakery together within 2 years.

So far I have made the Miracle Overnight White Loaf, which is a marvellous no-knead, overnight (duh) bread that you cook in casserole dish; and today I made the focaccia, which uses the same dough but you press it out to make focaccia. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. I have read an awful lot of cookbooks over the years, some chock-a-block full of recipes such as Jamie Oliver or Mary Berry, and some with a more story-like feel, like Nigel Slater, but I’ve never read a cookbook with as much heart and soul and passion written in every word as this one. If you had told me at 14 when I couldn't even get out of bed with depression and anxiety that three years later I would have written a book I would never have believed you.I’ve never posted a book review before, but this one is really special- I have both the book and the audiobook! Half of the book is a narrative of how the bakery was born, and the other consists of a number of delectable bread and pastry based offerings. I particularly liked that her dad and Kitty took turns in writing parts of the book, sometimes about similar things, sometimes about different phases of their journey. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed.