Nancy Silverton

"A cookbook full of Nancy Silverton's staple baking recipes"-- Biting into a particularly delicious peanut butter cookie, Silverton had an epiphany: everything-- sweet or savory-- should taste this good. She set to work perfecting the rest of the American baking cannon. Here she shares recipes for the platonic ideals of our most beloved baked goods. From buttermilk biscuits to key lime pie, her recipes are sure to become fixtures of everyone's pastry...

"From the restaurateur, acclaimed chef, and beloved author of cookbooks on everything from bread baking to pizza making--most recently, The Mozza Cookbook--comes a delectable new book that explores the recipes that inspired her, after a years-long hiatus, to cook at home again,"--Baker & Taylor.

150 different recipes for desserts. "When celebrated pastry chef and baker Nancy Silverton decided to add sweets to the La Brea Bakery's shelves of artisanal breads, she knew that they couldn't be just any sweets. Instead of baking fastidious and overelaborate desserts, she creates deliciously simple, rustic pastries, full of texture and flavor, that complement perfectly her hearty, country-style breads and have people lining up morning after morning....

Julia Child and her guests demonstrate recipes, techniques, and tricks of the trade that teach viewers how to make great breads, pies, cobblers, cookies, cakes, and pastries.