Bread and How To Eat It: A Cookbook

With the goal of broadening readers’ appreciation for bread and what goes into making it, Easton, baker and co-owner of Bread and Salt Bakery in New Jersey, has written (with the help of Melissa McCart) a cookbook for those who have a tough time using up a whole loaf of bread, giving them plenty of ideas for using bread in multiple forms. Easton advocates for buying bread from bakeries and strongly discourages making it at home (and definitely not purchasing it from a grocery store), so this cookbook only contains three recipes for baking bread. The rest of the 60-plus recipes are divided as follows: “Slices,” “Pieces,” “Crumbs,” “Things To Eat with Bread,” and “Breakfast Cereal and Sweets.” Recipes are written in a narrative style that, combined with a great deal of strongly stated personal philosophies throughout, make the book read almost like a blog post.