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Title: Surely you jest?
Review: This is the first cookbook I've ever purchased (in 40 years of buying them) that I found to be totally disappointing. Apart from the sloppy editing (cf. the Ciabatta recipe on pp 48-49, which states, in different places that it's a 3- and 4-loaf recipe), at least one of the so-called "master recipes" (Poolish) produces nothing but variations on a sourdough theme. The recipes are ridiculously complicated and produce results no better than far simpler traditional recipes. The sponge recipes produce twice as much dough as is needed for the two (max) loaves a regular oven can accommodate, etc. This cookbook is a disgraceful triumph of form over substance.
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