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While I cannot attest to having tried all the recipes in Tartine Bread, it is a book that drastically changed my approach and love for food. The basic sourdough bread recipe is and exercise in simplicity and complexity -it's ingredients are straightforward but it's focus on technique and craft made it a real bear to get right. Over the course of six months, every weekend I would try again to make the perfect pair of loaves -1kg flour, 700g water, 15g salt, and most of a day- and they would often turn out sub par: Undercooked inside, improperly shaped, too dense, not dense enough. Sometimes I considered giving up on the task, but then I remembered the incremental gains and insight I was seeing as I made the bread. Eventually, I made some great bread consistently, and I could understand and account for any variables in the process. I wasn't following a recipe, I had learned a craft. Tartine bread is the book that turned an interest in cooking into a passion.
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