Bread Therapy

October 1, 2020
Mindfulness, as this book's subtitle makes clear, is the key ingredient of this guide to finding balance, betterment, and stress relief while baking bread. Broken into seven chapters, with one recipe per chapter, Bread Therapy provides guidance, mindfulness, and insight into the act of making and baking a loaf of bread. This will appeal more to the baker looking inward than to a casual reader looking for a quick bread to bake. Hand-drawn illustrations are more decorative than explanatory, and accompany the focus or theme of each chapter. One of those themes is accepting imperfection in baking as well as in life, which readers can ponder as they turn a stale loaf of bread into Apple Brown Betty, or learn the process of nurturing a sourdough starter that will feed them for years to come.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2020, American Library Association.)