The Book of Buns: Over 50 brilliant bakes from around the world - Hardcover

Mason, Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1849754357 ISBN 13: 9781849754354

Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small, 2013

From every corner of the world, here you’ll find recipes both familiar and new. Legend has it that buns were developed to enable poor people to buy bread with dignity. Dignity for the buyer – who could not afford a loaf and for whom it was either humiliating or impossible to buy just a slice or two – and dignity for the bun – which was sold with its crust and crumb beautifully intact, a small piece of perfection to be shared as graciously as a big loaf. Whatever their history, we can find buns in just about every country in the world. There are sweet buns and savoury buns; steamed buns and baked buns; stuffed buns and plain buns; buns for special occasions and buns for every day. The Book of Buns takes you on a journey around the world to explore bun culture. The clear recipes are often accompanied by step-by-step photography to make it both fun and easy to bake buns for family and friends to enjoy.

Review:

What's not to love? --True Loaf

About the Author:

"Jane Mason is a baker, writer, and social entrepreneur.  She founded Virtuous Bread (www.virtuousbread.com) in 2010 to make it fun and easy for people all over the world to make and find and learn about bread and in so doing to forge the link between bread and virtue.  She is also the director of Bread Angels (www.breadangels.com) - a network of micro-bakers who work at home to make good bread available in their local communities.

To date, she has written three books - All You Knead Is Bread, The Book of Buns, and Home Made Sourdough - and is the contributing editor on Mexico - the Cook Book.  She currently lives between Mexico and London and is busy on her fourth book."

• Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1849754357
• ISBN 13: 9781849754354
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160