The Hot Bread Kitchen Cookbook: Artisanal Baking from Around the World [Hardcover]

Bake authentic multiethnic breads from the New York City bakery with a mission, withThe Hot Bread Kitchen Cookbook,Yahoo Food's Cookbook of the Year.

At first glance Hot Bread Kitchen may look like many other bakeries. Multigrain sandwich loaves, sourdough batards, baguettes, and Parker House rolls line the glass case up front in the small shop. But so, too, do sweet Mexican conchas, richm’smenflatbreads, mini bialys sporting a filling of caramelized onion, and chewy Indian naan. In fact, the breads are as diverse as the women who bake them—because the recipes come from their homelands.

Hot Bread Kitchen is a bakery that employs and empowers immigrant women, providing them with the skills to succeed in the culinary industry. The tasty corollary of this social enterprise is a line of authentic breads you won’t find anywhere else. Featured in some of New York City’s best restaurants and carried in dozens of retail outlets across the country, these ethnic gems can now be made at home withThe Hot Bread Kitchen Cookbook.

“I'll be pressing The Hot Bread Kitchen Cookbook into the hands of many. It manages to pull off the difficult balance between both a story and a guide: It details the passion project of a small group of amazing individuals while being a practical, useful, down-to-earth book for the home cook who really just wants to make great bread.”
—Yotam Ottolenghi, on Food52.com

“The wordcompanionis derived from the Latin, meaning ‘one with whom we break bread.’ The Hot Bread Kitchen Cookbookis more than just a book of great recipes—it is an inspirational collection of life lessons and stories about people who, every day, make a difference while making beautiful bread and great food. Jessamyn Waldman Rodriguez takes us around the globe and into the worldview of many international cultures, lƒ½