Zingerman's Bakehouse by Amy Emberling and Frank Carollo pictures by Antonis Achilleos

Zingerman's Bakehouse by Amy Emberling and Frank Carollo pictures by Antonis Achilleos is a book celebrating the first 25st anniversary of this yummy reality! born in Michigan and feeding up people from that State but also the rest of the USA.

This book doesn't want just to let you know this important reality from Michigan and OK its special successful birthday and anniversary, but wants to share with you all their best recipes, some of them authors tell are still unknown and never never shared in the baking classrooms that they often organize.
Zingerman's own hundreds of recipes from bread to cakes. During these years they  opened other 10 businesses stores and 700  people work for them.

Zingerman's wants to be an artisan bakery with traditional methods.

Frank was born from Sicilian's parents in Detroit. He enjoyed pasta and arancini and later when he moved to Ann Arbor he started to work in a restaurant and he discovered he loved it!
Amy Emberling was born in Nova Scotia, Canada and then she studied  cooking and baking in Paris. She is with Frank one of the founders of Zingerman's.

In the book at the beginning how to start to bake with success, necessary tools, ingredients. Then enjoy yourself and your eyes in this delicious trip through the best of baking.
Every recipe explained in detail, sometimes you can discover its story. Every treat is born once for a reason, you must know. Hungarian and Jewish  baking the most favorite ones at Zingerman's. You will find, we are in theme, close to Halloween, A Transylvanian's Cinnamon Swirl Bread, a Boston Cream Pie, a delicious Challah (Jewish baking tradition), Ginger Jump-up Cookies, a wonderful Sour Cream Coffee Cake, and you can try the Sicilian Sesame Semolina Bread just for naming some of the recipes you'll discover in this wonderful cook book.
It's not important if it's a feast, it's not important if it's  a special occasion, a cake or some cookies will always be loved and appreciated by your family and friends and a part of that "Sharing Memories Passing through Food" so important in our existence.


Highly recommended.

I thank Chronicle Books for the physical copy of this book.

Anna Maria Polidori