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Title: Interesting stories, bad recipes
Review: This book is very interesting to read, you get a lot of background information on where certain types of bread are made and the people that make it. The authors seem to really enjoy meeting people and talking with them about food.That being said, I have made a number of the recipes in this book and none of them were good. I have a lot of bread cookbooks and I am a fairly experienced bread baker and just reading some of the ingredient ratios had me scratching my head. Sometimes the dough is too dry, sometimes too wet. The instructions become vague in crucial areas, such as describing the texture your dough should be at certain points or how things should look when they are done. The resulting products are often tough, tasteless and chewy. I even tried adjusting a few of the recipes and they just didn't taste very good, which is too bad, because the descriptions sound so nice.
