HERE IT IS MY FRIENDS! The new year is here with new goals and healthy resolutions and what better way to aid you in building healthy habits than having a copy of
HEALTHY BREAD IN FIVE MINUTES A DAY?!
I am SO STOKED! Can you tell?
Here on my desk sit 5 lovely, brand new Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day 100 New Recipes Featuring Whole Grains, Fruits, Vegetables, and Gluten-Free Ingredients books. They are so pretty, let me tell you. And OH the recipes, the information rising out of this book... it's enough to make you want to open up a healthy bakery! I'm in love, again, with all the work Jeff and Zoë have put forth into this book. They have gone above and beyond. Another great book. Another must have.
Monica from St. Martins Press provided the books for the giveaways. Every one say, "Thank You Monica!"
AND she hooked me up with an interview with Jeff Hertzberg, M.D. and Zoë François; what a thrill! Even though I already chat with Zoë on Facebook, I was somehow star-struck at the thought of interviewing them both. I'm silly, I know.
Have fun reading the interview with Jeff Hertzberg, M.D. and Zoë François.
Jill: Your first book, Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day (ABin5), was published over 2 years ago. When you considered writing it, did you ever imagine it would bring you to where you are today?
Jeff & Zoë: I always thought it might sell if we could get the message out to enough people over a quick burst of time, because Zoe and I (and our families) knew that the method worked. If we hadn't had a little luck with national coverage (The Splendid Table radio show, the New York Times, and the Associated Press), we wouldn't have had a success. But we had coverage in all three of those. From there, it "went viral" on the Web. The Web makes everything possible for unknowns without a TV show. Before the web, the cookbook market had really solidified around books written by people who had a TV show. What a difference today, and our book really demonstrated it by giving readers a quick way to communicate their success with the book.
Jill: How many copies of ABin5 have sold?
Jeff & Zoë: There are 250,000 copies in print; the publisher likes to print a few months ahead of demand but this means that a quarter million will have been sold by 2010. Demand remains as strong as ever for our first book.
Jill: What's it like to be successful cookbook authors?
Jeff & Zoë: It's more fun than a barrel of monkeys! Never thought I'd be doing any of this kind of work. It's mostly creative, but there are business decisions to be made as well.
Jill: What moved you to write Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day (HBin5)?
Jeff & Zoë: On our website (www.healthybreadinfive.com), everyone started asking for something with whole grains and with gluten-free ingredients. Our two books together really cover the whole range of bread now, from light breads in the European tradition, to very hearty whole grain American-style stuff, to gluten-free loaves that really taste good and store as well as our wheat breads. I'm very proud of these books, and so honored that so many people have chosen them.
Jill: How are the recipes different?
Jeff & Zoë: There's much more whole grain in this book; with one exception (an olive oil challah), everything is at least 50% whole grain, the "Master" is about 75% whole grain, and another ten "Masters" are 100% whole grain-- even a Holiday Stollen is 100% whole wheat and it is delicious. That meant we needed vital wheat gluten to lighten up the results. Otherwise it was too dense to store, and storage is still the key to our method. If you can't store the dough, you don't really change the time equation for busy people. That's how our books are different.
Jill: Do the recipes follow the same steps of the ABin5 Master Recipe?
Jeff & Zoë: Almost-- everything just gets dumped together into a bucket or bowl. The only difference is that you start with the dry ingredients, so you have a chance to mix the vital wheat gluten in with the flour. It needs to be distributed like that or it forms firm clumps with the liquids.
Jill: While watching the video, I noticed you used parchment paper instead of corn meal. Why is that?
Jeff & Zoë: You can continue to use cornmeal on the pizza peel, as in the first book (I think we have some new video with cornmeal). For "Healthy Bread," we just gave more options and our first video had the parchment version. Personally, I think the best, crustiest result is achieved with cornmeal, because parchment interferes with moisture transfer into the baking stone. It's a subtle difference though, and some of our readers find the parchment to be a much neater and cleaner method (no scorched cornmeal in the oven). You can even bake on a silicone mat (same issue with moisture transfer). If you use parchment or silicone, peel it off for the last third of baking to dry out that bottom crust.
Jill: And finally, what's the funniest thing to have happened to you while promoting your books?
Jeff & Zoë: You have to be willing to laugh at yourself, I mean, we're not professional marketers or TV personalities. On live TV in San Francisco, the interviewer looked at me and asked, "So, where are you guys doing your book signing tonight?" I looked at her and said "I don't know!" It's in the video...
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Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day 100 New Recipes Featuring Whole Grains, Fruits, Vegetables, and Gluten-Free Ingredients
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I am a Moron. Not just any old Moron but a real live, uni-browed, died-in-the-wool, if-it-aint-hard, it-aint-worth-doin’ Moron. Three years ago I decided that I need to learn to bake bread. Not just any bread, but huge, rustic, whole grained, brick-oven bread like you see on the covers of all of the bread books I bought. A couple of years ago I saw Jeff and Zoe’s book hit the shelves, and the web and everybody’s blog that wrote anything about baking. In my mind, I retreated to my happy place and told myself that how good could it be if it only takes 5 minutes. Baking Bread is an event. Aunt Martha comes over when you bake bread just so she can see your face turn red as you’re kneeding the dough. But, between those events, I would still like to enjoy good, home-made bread but who has time. As of today, you can officially call me a convert. I will spend the rest of the Winter making Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day. Now, If you want me to make Healthy Bread in 5 Minutes a Day, I need to win one of these new giveaways. Congrats Jeff and Zoe. I hope you are as successfull as you are talented.
Oh stop, Robert, you’re cracking me up! But only because I completely understand the pain. Welcome to the bright side of life and the easy way to making awesome artisan bread at home. Life is fancier yet still simple and reasonable.
What a great giveaway! I’d LOVE to try these recipes!
I don’t want this book, I NEED it! Hehe. One of my resolutions for this year is to bake all the bread we consumed, but sometimes time is an issue, so I really really want this book, LOL. I’ll spread the word.
Wow– I’d really like to have some great 5 minute gluten-free bread recipes… most days I don’t miss REAL bread, but looking at the picture on their cover…well, I’m salivating just thinking about looking at the picture on the cover. (btw, your site is really really swanky Jill– congrats!)
~going off to bed, salivating…
~Cynthia
Cynthia, I would be lost without bread in my diet. And cheese.
I’d love to try 5 minute bread! Thanks for the chance.
It’s cold here in Philadelphia and I would love a chance to try Healthy Bread in 5 minutes a day! Warm up the kitchen with the oven on! This is the one cookbook I asked for over the holiday season and didn’t get
Courtney, it’s cold here in Texas, too. I’m finding reasons to turn on the oven.
I’m sorry Santa did send you the book.
Great interview! I am chomping at the bit to get my hands on this book. I thought I might find one under my Christmas tree this year, but I found a push reel lawn mower instead. (another one of my big wishes, so still very gratifying) For some reason I am unable to go to the store to purchase things for myself.
I too would love to cook all the food we consume at home. Crossing my fingers, and loving that you are sharing this great find with all of your followers. Thank you!
Thanks Delia!
A push reel lawn mower, huh? Are those the old fashion ones without a motor? We had one back in the honeymoon years; it was great for a small lawn.
Remember, you don’t have to go the store to buy the book for yourself. You can get a copy through any one of the Amazon links on SDR, proceeds go to fund the future education of my kids. I’m not kidding.
This sounds like a great book! I love baking bread, but I don’t always have the time, but I can always spare 5 minutes!
Wow, would love this book!!!! I can’t make regular bread because there is too much needing involved. I have really bad wrists. Thanks for having this giveaway! It looks like an awesome book.
Tami, Candace,
Healthy Bread in Five is easy, easy to follow and not like traditional bread making at all. You will be so happy when you start using this book.
I would love to win this giveaway. One of my twins has Celiac and I would love gluten free bread in just 5 mins a day.
There are 6 of us and I would love some new recipes to try. Thanks for the chance to win this cookbook.
I have just begun coming here recently because of my lifelong love of BREAD! I have been making more bread while being off work for surgery and I have learned so much about making more healthful choices. I made my first loaf in my early teens and I LOVE BREAD but need to make these loaves healthier. This book would be a great way for me to learn! Thanks for your willingness to share the love of bread!
Thank you for joining in the fun, Denise, Linda and Deborah! This is a great book. FULL of great information about healthy flour, extra tips, etc. It’s more than bread recipes.
I have the first book…and would LOVE to have the second one!! Great post, interview & giveaway!
Happy New Year Jill!
Thank you, Deeba! Happy New Year to you, too!
What a great combination of ideas – Healthy Bread – hooray for the carb lovers, and FAST too? Perfect for our busy household. Can’t wait to try some of these recipes.
This books has everything I’m interested in learning more about. LESS sugar, white flour and salt. Everyone should have the pleasure of reading and baking from this book! Hope to win a book so I can get started in a healther direction. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
I would love to win this book>>>Healthy Bread! How wonderful!!! If my husband ever gets a job again I will get the first one, it is on my list..
Thank you for the chance to win and Happy New Year
I’m praying for your family, Charlotte. Happy New Year to you too!
Last April I decided to eat healthier. I’ve lost 98 pounds and would love to add some healthy breads to my diet. I’m afraid of baking, but if it’s as easy as they say, I’m game! Looking forward to trying some of the recipes!
Congratulations Barbara! Wow 98 pounds is a lot of hard work. You go girl!
Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day will change you.
After reading an article on your site, I bought Artisan Bread in Just 5 Minutes a Day. I must say that I love it, but I think the new book would be EVEN BETTER for my family (mainly my hubby). He can eat a whole loaf by himself
I’m always striving to find ways to make everything I cook healthier and faster, so this may be the perfect book for me!
THANKS for the chance to win!!!
Lynn, isn’t it nice that each dough recipe can be doubles easily and we can get four loaves from each batch? That makes it a no-brainer to toss a loaf of bread in the oven whenever we feel like it.
I love baking bread.
I have the first book and would like to add book number 2 to my collection.
Wish me luck!
Sounds like a wonderful book.
My husband has been a diabetic for over 40 years. There are a couple breads on the market with low carb count and he has been limited to them in the past. They are not the tastiest but…..! By using your first book I have been able to bake varities of bread for him, fast and easily, it has opened up a whole new world of sandwich enjoyment for him!!! And, a feeling of creativity in the kitchen for me!!! I would love to bake breads from your new book, it sounds made to order for us. Thanks!!!
Pat, I’m so glad Artisan Bread in Five is working for you both. It’s gratifying to watch our men eat happily, then walk away from the table satisfied. Especially when we have fun preparing the meal.
I would love to win a copy! I have never tried making bread and have resolved to eat healtier and more whole foods.
I have been making bread with too much white bread flour, I need to learn how to do it healthier at the altitude we live at I was just happy when I finally got some bread to work and have stuck with the unhealthy stuff too long! count me in as a need to win!
I would love to win this book! I just got the first one, and am waiting for my supplies to arrive so I can try my first loaf. Thanks for the opportunity!
I really enjoyed the first book, so much that I gave my mom a copy and a baking stone for Christmas with the hope that she would enjoy it too. The new book with recipes for more whole-grain breads looks like it would mesh nicely with my resolve to eat more whole-grain foods this year. Thanks for the great interview!
This would be a great book to have! I have just started to look for recipes tht are gluten-free. I have arthritis and this has been suggested as a possible help…I’ll take all the help I can get! Thanks for this awesome giveaway!
I love to bake bread…anything that makes it easier, healthier and uses good ingredients is a boon to all of us who love the heat in the kitchen…no matter what time of year it is!
Sounds great. I have to say that I cannot find vital wheat gluten anywhere. Any suggestions??
In Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day, Jeff & Zoe suggest two supermarket brands that are generally available in the United States.
1. Hodgson Mill Vital Wheat Gluten
2. Bob’s Red Mill
Also mentioned is King Arthur Flour has one available online or through mail order.
OK – Im in. After th last book giveaway, which I never managed to win, one of my family members took pity on me (Or just wanted me to shut up about wanting this book) and gave it to me for Christmas. YAY!!! While I have not had to to do much yet from the book, what little I have done has been a huge success in my mind. So, being as I am diabetic, I really want to have the new reipes so I can move to more complex carbs in my bread that works better with my system than the lights and whites!
And if I dont win THIS one, just remember, its my family who will have to hear me whine until at least my birthday about how much I want this one too!!
Thanks Jill for the give away!
tim
I’d love to try these recipes!! Thanks for the interview!
Thanks Jill for the lovely emails you send out!
I love to bake and I love bread. A healthy low carb bread would be great, especially homemade! This sounds like my kind of cookbook (not that they make one that isn’t!)! Thanks for the opportunity to win
Have a great new year!
Monica
I love, love, love homemade bread. A healthy low carb bread that taste yummy, would be great! I can’t wait to try the recipes!
Leigh
I am so praying to be favored with one of these books!!!
Thank you for a wonderful website and a great give-away…blessings in 2010…
I did it again. Twice I forgot to add up the spam protection thingie. Well, the wondrful post I had typed will just have to wander out in cyberspace for alein eyes. Love to win this book. I promise to tell my sisters in law about how great it is, but I will not lend it out. They never return a single book. One even wrote her name in my book. Can you imagine? LOL
Thank you for the chance to win this book! I really enjoy your newsletter.
Great Giveaway, just made a pot of cabbage soup. Would have been nice to have some homemade artisanal bread, but the jalapeno cornbread worked.
I have been wanting this book since I first saw it on your site! It would be a great addition to my health weightloss goals as I am incorporating more whole grains and there are not many good healthy bread choices in the store.
Hi Desiree!
I applaud you for taking action toward a healthier lifestyle. And you’re right, there’s not very many truly healthy choices in the stores. When we start reading the labels, it’s very apparent how unnatural food can be.
Michael Pollan reminds us, if it comes in a box, it’s not natural food.
Look to the foodie marts in their bulk bin sections for whole grains, a variety of flours, legumes, and fresh spices. You really can save money purchasing in lose bulk. And it’s the perfect place to try new ingredients, spending as little as $0.11, to discover new recipes.
Can’t wait to try some of the recipes! Thanks for the great interview, great giveaway and of course for “Simple Daily Recipes!”
Thank you Maria! Have fun today!
I totally love homemade breads! I have started to learn how to bake them from scratch so I think this book will be an excellent tool for me. I has so many healthy and delicious recipes. I hope I’m lucky enough to win a copy!!! Fingers crossed!!!
The fact that it has gluten free recipes is enough for me – they are so hard to find, and when you have a youngster that can’t eat gluten it poses it’s own set of problems. Thanks for writing this book!!
My family LOVES homemade bread and so far every 5 min recipe that I have tried from the simple daily recipe website has turned out fabulous!!!
Having started a New Years resolution to cook healthier meals for my family I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, to have this new cookbook to get them eating healthier breads!
Thank you also for your blueberry muffin recipe, I make them about once a week but they never last longer than a day!
Good morning Sarah!
THANK YOU for your kind words. You’ve made a wonderful healthy resolution. YEAAAAH!
One item high on my “Recipes to Try” list is English muffins made with the 100% whole wheat bread recipe from Jeff and Zoë’s “Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day“. I saw their article on motherearthnews.com, then someone on another site mentioned using the master recipe for English Muffins, and I figure a whole wheat version shouldn’t be too hard to figure out. I’d be thrilled to actually own either of Jeff and Zoë’s bread books, but “Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day” is right up my alley–Thanks for the cool offer!
P.S. Your spam protection wasn’t working correctly for me in Safari earlier today. I had to go to Firefox to make comments, because I kept getting told I can’t add single-digit numbers. ?;o)
Thank you, Geek, for letting me know about the Safari/spam protection hiccup. I’ll pass that to my developer.
I have another friend who’s urging me to read Mother Earth News. I know the magazine has been around for ages. I need to pick up a copy.
Have been wanting to prepare fresh homemade breads – now with gluten free options, I am more than excited about your bread recipes & look forward to being a winner of your latest book(s). One family member is diabetic, so this would be especially helpful.
Hey thank you Monica, for providing the books and Jill for facilitating the give away. I’ve entered for this book a few times so I’m feeling really really lucky. Maybe I’ll win a copy. YAY
AmyRuth
I love your first book and can’t wait to try the recipes in this one.
It really sounds great. For a while I’ve been looking for recipes to bake a bread without a machine, healthy and variety. It sounds like this is the book. Looking forward to use it in my kitchen and serve the Family something nice and different.
You’ll love this book, Janine. It offers the same steps to building the doughs, and a wealth of recipes so we could never grow bored of baking bread.
I would LOVE to own a copy of this! After checking out the first book from the library I HAD to buy it
Jen, you’re so fortunate to have a library with a copy of the book! But owning it is WAY BETTER than getting it on loan, right? Now you can dog-ear the pages ;D
I have Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day and the master dough is awesome. It’s so versatile and the place smells amazing as the bread bakes in the oven
I just saw this book for the first time at B&N and have added to my list of “must haves”!! I also checked out Jeff and Zoe’s website and have recommended it to all my friends. Would love to win this book and begin making my own artisan bread healthfully!!
Looking forward to this book! I LOVE the first Artisan Bread in 5 book. Just made some rye baguettes last night!! They were great, but I’m starting a diet Monday, and need to go “Whole Grain” so I cant wait to try the new recipes. Thanks Zoe and Jeff!
I LOVE these books! The bread is in my refrigerator always! I’ve added so many different ingredients and you CANNOT mess it up. Perfect bread every time (and rolls and pizza dough and sweet rolls….)
I bought the first book and it got him to make Pizza again. Then, we went out and bought the second book as soon as we could. But, found out that we had relatives who were trying to be Gluten Free and so we GAVE them our book telling them we would get another one. That was at New Year’s. So, once payday hits, we will go out and buy the book again… unless… we win this one… Nah, we’ll keep the one we win and keep infecting others by buying thier books and giving them away.
I have their first book and just love it! I have been baking bread forever and found this book to be a wonderful way to teach people this simple art of baking beautiful, yummy bread at home. I can hardly wait for the new book! I hope you pick me and I get a free copy! Whoever wins will be getting a real treasure.
I can not wait to pick up their latest book. I purchased ABin5 a little over a week ago and have made 3 batches so far. My bread has turned out perfect each time. There is nothing like warm homemade bread. Yum!
I received Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day for Christmas and would love a copy of their second book!!
With a newborn and a toddler in the house I do not have as much time on hand to make healthy meals, but some hearty bread–that can be made in little time– would be great. I could save money on bread and use it on diapers instead. When I go to bakeries I am tempted to buy their fancy looking loaves, but my tight budget always deters me. HB in 5 would give me the knowledge to make some good bread and share it too.
I love bread, but being a single person find I waste a lot of a loaf. I am looking forward to trying out this method because it will allow me to bake small, one person loaves.
I am on a very looooong waiting list at our library for this book. I’ve tried the recipes that they’ve released and even I can make this bread! I have to have this book!
I just hear the word bread and I get excited. I use to make my own bread but as life got busy, I let that go. To me, baking bread is satisfying to the soul, not to mention that pleasure at smelling it cook in the oven. This is the first time I have heard of baking a more healthy bread.
I absolutely LOVE the healthier version of the originals, which have become staples in our weekly family menus plans. I posted links on my Facebook page to the Mother Earth News articles covering both cookbooks and the basic recipes. Several Facebook friends have thanked me for the links.
I was introduced to your book over the holidays by my sister-in-law. After spending 20 minutes reading it, I was hooked. Just bought a Kitchen-Aid stand mixer. Now I’m anxiously awaiting a copy of your book (hint, hint).
Thanks for the opportunity to win a book! Would love to give it to my mom–in the meantime I’m sending her the recipe for Anadama Bread–one of our family favorites! Hugs and love to Zoe…she is a dear friend!
I have been making whole grain bread for 30 plus years, I grind my own flour. I have tried many different methods……….I always knew that there must be an easier way. HBin5 is wonderful! If I win the book I will give it away to a friend or family member. I have been giving loaves and dough so I can mix up more! Love this! Thanks
I love their recipes and I can weight to try their new book.
I love the first book, but would love to try some healthier breads.
Oops. I mean can’t wait to try their new book.
I love Zoe and Jeff’s 1st book! Please let me have a peek at this new one and get even more inspiration in the kitchen.
I’d love to win!!!!!
I loved the first book, but we do try to eat more whole grain breads and I grind our own flour, so I’d love to use this technique on those. Thank you!
I’ve been making bread for quite some time but I’m always looking for new whole grain recipes. This book would be a great addition in my kitchen.
Enter me! I am constantly trying to find ways to “hide” healthy stuff in great food for my husband. Would love some new ideas!
Wife and I NEED this book. We love the techniques and simplicity of making a delicious and healthy bread at home.
I am on the waiting list at the library and pick it up every time I go to the book store. Just holding out for a little longer before I buy. I would LOVE to win a copy so I can stop talking to myself in the cookbook aisle of the book store!
I’ve been making AB5D for over a year and have spread the news about fast and easy bread making to all my friends. I have both books now, thanks to a wonderful hubby and Christmas, but would love to give more of them away to friends who borrow mine:) Thank you!
I got ABin5 as a present for the holidays this year, and I love it! I was simply amazed at how easy it is to make absolutely scrumptious bread. The only downside to me was how many of the recipes relied on white flour – I’m a whole wheat girl when I can help it. When I discovered HBin5, my first though was that I had to have it, but I couldn’t justify buying it, having received the first book so recently. It’s on my Amazon wish list, but hopefully I’ll win one instead!
Love this book, I discovered it in my public library. I was lucky to get both books for the holidays from my grown children, they love the bread!! I would love to get an additional copy to share the book with a friend. I have Quinoa Bread resting right now for another great loaf. I grew up in Peru eating quinoa but never in bread, great and nutritious.
Wow, look at all the responses! What a terrific giveaway! I’d love to win a copy of this, especially for the GF recipes ~ what a treasure to find! Thanks
I have the first book, Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day, but would really love to get this book, so I could experiment with more whole grain breads and share gluten-free breads with my mother who has a gluten allergy. I have the new book requested at the library but I am something like #346 on the waiting list, and will only be able to have it for 3 weeks because of the waiting list (that is, when I get it sometime in the next 2 or 3 years…). I’ve been so enthusiastic about this method that I’ve sold a friend on it; she loves it, too. I used to make all my bread from scratch, even ground my own wheat, and kneaded by hand, but haven’t been able to do that for many years. Now I love the simplicity of this method–plus its absolute GOODNESS, because being simple and easy is not enough if it isn’t also delicious!
Wowzer! I step away from the computer for a couple of hours and WHAM-O! More wonderful folks turn up to shout their praises.
THIS IS AMAZING!!! All this excitement is intoxicating.
((BIG HUG))
LOVE artisan breads but not the work so was excited to be able to make the gluten free bread. How wonderful to not have to knead forever to have a great bread! Was so very simple, basically just combine ingredients, stir, let rest, shape and bake!!! The taste was phenomenal as well. I would love to win this book!
I LOVE these recipes! I found them through Mother Earth News and have been hooked on them ever since! I would SO SO SO love to get a copy of their book! I have lots of friends who are GF and if I win I can’t wait to share the recipes with them!
Hi, Jeff Hertzberg, here checking in— so flattered to see so many people here checking in on our interview with Jill. There are quite a lot of questions here, so I think I need to refer you to our website— http://www.breadinfive.com, where Zoe and I can take the time and space to answer your questions.
Happy baking! Jeff
I have been reading about this book on many different blogs. It sounds like just the thing to have around the kitchen on this very cold winter.
I bake bread at least twice a week, so I am quite interested in this book.
Please enter me into the giveaway. Thanks
Would love a chance to win this book. I tweeked the basic white recipe with my home ground wheat and oatmeal, but would love their tried and true recipes!
Please enter me, Thanks Jo
I would love to win this book. Bread is our favorite part of the meal! I would really love to have some healthy options for my young daughter and junk food loving husband.
I have both books and I love them, I have made countless loaves of bread since May, I bought my Mom ABin5 for Christmas would love to win HBin5 for her. The best part is that you can easily adapt the size of the loaves, I make a small one just for me but larger ones when the kids are home from school. I always have fresh bread.
I loved their first book & my husband says the bread is great but he refuses to let me buy the second book becsue he says I already have too many cookbooks. Can anyone have too many cookbooks?
Love the AB in 5 book and am looking forward to Healthy AB/5. I am trying to tweak the recipe to get it to be just the way I want it, using their techniques.
I just delivered 3 loaves of bread for friends to try – am trying to make converts out of them!
I’m new to your website and this is the first I’ve heard of your book. I’ve been enjoying the web pages and videos, too. My favorite part of your recipe is that you can store the dough in the fridge for 2 weeks. I NEVER knew you could do that with a bread dough. I can’t wait to try one of your published recipes and would love to be the winner of your cookbook give away so I can treat my family to your delights often! Thanks for considering me!
OMG, I really want this book, I have read reviews on it, and it seems like a great book and I love the idea of fresh bread in the morning!
I would love to win a copy of this book. I’m interested in learning to bake bread at home because commercial store-bought bread is so awful.
Would just luv, luv , luv a copy of this book! Thanks for the opportunity!
i really enjoyed this book, since i hadn’t had much experience with kneading bread, this came out better for me. i love making these loaves , plus i don’t buy from the store anymore!
Thank you Monica and Jill! I love to bake, but have never really gotten into baking bread – this book could change my life! I currently spend about $12 a week on artisan bread – just think what I could do with the money I would save, plus my house would smell so great!
You’re welcome Francine!
Francine, I have roughly calculated certain recipes from Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day. I spend between $0.50 to $1.50 per loaf for the freshest, prettiest, most delicious bread in town. Because we can have fresh bread anytime now, I am buying in bulk. I can get 1 pound of dry yeast for $5.00 at Costco; that’s a money saver. Ingredients such as cheese, fruits and vegetables will add to your costs, but the recipes don’t ask for a lot. So it’s still economical to get fancy.
I use to buy artisan breads when I drove to Dallas to my favorite foodie mart. But now I use the foodie mart bakery as source of inspiration for new flavors. I can taste their rosemary bread and decide if I should bother making it at home. That’s fun.
Do you know the song? “Anything you can do, I can do better”
I sing that song in front of the foodie mart bakery, thanks to Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day.
Thank you Jeff & Zoe!
my home smells so good with a loaf of raisan bread baking in the oven. the recipe is from the first book and I haven’t tried one that isn’t a keeper. I hope to bake every recipe in the book then start on book #2.
Good morning Pat!
I’m so glad you’re having fun with ABin5. Don’t you love that Jeff & Zoe tucked complimentary recipes in between the bread recipes?
They did that again in Healthy Bread in Five. I love having both books; I can’t help but read them side by side.
Artisan bread at the Farmers Market, where I shop in season (April-October), and then purchase at the Whole Foods Market or other outlets, is WAY out of my budget–over $7 for a loaf of bread I can’t finish before it goes bad. Can’t wait to get your book, and try some small, home baked loaves. Ahhh, I am first a person of the sense of smell and then — the coup de grace!
You finally talked about their first book so much that I finally went out and bought it! Now, I am super excited about “Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day“. I am a health nut and this book will be a great way to provide bread and baked goods that will be wonderful for my body as well as my taste buds!!
Great giveaway! I’m dying to have a copy of this book. Healthy bread *yum
What a great gift! Just found this blog – been grinding my own wheat for about 6 months & really DIDN’t want to do all those AP breads! Finally a book for me!
Thanks can’t wait till try some of these recipes.
I’ve heard nothing but great reviews about this book. Can’t wait to try those healthy bread recipes!
This book could help me bake more bread and since its healthy too it goes with my new year resolutions
Wow.. now this is just the book I need to kick start my bread baking, of which I’ve been too scared uptil now!
The smell of baking bread is positively aphrodisiac. It makes my husband all lovely-dovey, anyway.
He really appreciates the efforts I make toward healthy food and whole grains.
I made my first batch this weekend, from online instructions. I used all wheat instead of 75 percent, and added maybe a quarter cup (a glop?) of local honey to the Master Recipe to ensure the yeasty rise and take a little of the bitterness out. It was better than chocolate (from his viewpoint, anyway)!
The first batch was a little flat but knee-saggingly delicious. I’ve let bread intimidate me, and here was the best thing we’ve dredged through soup in a long time. For the second loaf, I doubled up and used a loaf pan; also lowered the oven temperatures to 450, as any higher sets off the smoke alarms (always has). It was terrific! A dark, rich hearty sandwich/toasting bread. The last loaf I tried in the enameled crock, and that worked too.
So, even though I tried different methods, added items or amended recipes to suit, changed baking times, I got delicious bread. It really seems to be foolproof.
Got the second Master recipe in the fridge right now. I’m dying to read the book!
Thanks for the interview.
Hi, I’m new to this sort of thing. I really won’t know if I did everything correctly, but I’m willing to try. I love bread and the mystery of how it is made is what drew me to it watching my mom making all kinds as we were growing up. The eight of us kids, live-in grandparents and especially my dad loved all the different breads she made, not to mention some occasional just in time drop in after school friends. Now that it is just me and my husband, these recipes work out just right for us. It would be a great adventure without the hard work to try these new recipes in Healthy Bread in 5 minutes a day. Thanks for all the research and hard work.
Jill,
Having just finished reading Michael Pollan’s, In Defense of Food, my new year’s resolution is to eat healthier and smarter. This morning I read the label on a loaf of Brownberry Health Nut bread and was pretty astonished by what was there.
I came across a review of Healthy Bread earlier today and was excited about the idea of baking healthy bread. I was on your website and then found this interview, quite a Serendipitous Event!
Thanks for the interview, Happy Baking!
Hi Marty!
I have that book and LOVE IT! I have it on audio and have listened to it twice. I found it to be a positive book towards understanding how we come to eat the way we eat. I dug learning about the age of nutritionism and how it has affected our national health….it’s amazing and has had a profound effect on my perspective. I am a changed person.
If you ever want to just chat about your favorite parts of the book, email me. Although I’ve read the book, I haven’t had the fun of sharing my enthusiasm for it with another reader. (That sounds so sad.)
Another thumbs up for Michael Pollan. If you liked his books, be sure to rent “Food, Inc,” in which he is featured – your diet will clean up in a hurry, effortlessly!
Amen to that, Jane!
Food, Inc. is a MUST WATCH movie. We caught it as an instant watch on Netflix and LOVED IT, in a eye opening way.
I have also enjoyed watching KIng Corn, The Botany of Desire, and The Future of Food. And of course, Super Size Me.
All great films that will make us look at our grocery store and what we think is good food, a lot differently.
And the bottom-line takeaway for me was … learn to cook and bake with whole foods again.
The processed food industry is not necessarily our friend. With whole foods and home baking, I get to control the additives, ingredients and process.
We have to start cooking and baking again.
I love the internet! How did we ever get along without it? I just stumbled across this site and am sure glad I did. I will be a regular reader!
I have ABin5 and LOVE it but am sure looking forward to the new one with more healthy whole grains.
My family loves bread, and I love having fresh hot bread ready for supper any night of the week.
Welcome Phyllis! I’m glad you found us. You’re absolutely right; there’s nothing like having fresh hot bread ready for supper any night of the week.
I have batch of Olive oil dough mixed with fresh ground pepper, dried basil and a little onion powder. It has been wonderful for dinner and as a breakfast toast with my morning eggs.
I, also, made a batch of Oatmeal bread with added cinnamon. It’s time for me to bake it today. Can’t wait to fill the house with the smell of cinnamon and bread.
I’d love to have a copy of this book. My manager just turned me on to this after he brought in a chunk of bread he made from this book and it was great. I’d like to be able to make my own whole grain-sugar free bread at home since it is hard to come by in stores consistently. Thanks!
I always thought it would be better to make bread at home but who wants to get into that, right? From the looks of this book…I DO!!!
That is some nice looking bread.
love the recipes – keep them coming – THANKS!
I make a lot of our bread, especially in winter. I would love to try making artisan bread, but I have failed miserably at trying to win their first book, so I am about to splurge on it. I am psyched to think that there is an even healthier way to make it, so I’ve really, really GOT TO get this book!
Also, our niece has a gluten allergy and when she comes to visit, she usually brings her own bread, so it would be nice if I could make her a nice fresh loaf while she’s here. I know she would appreciate that.
Finally, “Thank You Jill & Monica!”
Good morning Hannah!
Have you been over to the Artisan Bread site? They have a copy of the Healthy Bread Master Recipe. After you have experienced making the ABin5 Master Recipe, you’ll be ready to make a gluten free loaf for your niece. The steps are the same, only the ingredients are different. Easy, easy.
I am trying to learn to bake bread and I so wanna win this!! Thanks so much for the Chance to win!!
Baking bread is something I’ve always wanted to try but haven’t had the guts to do it! I love the smell of dough rising and bread baking in our bread machine! Wonderful to wake up to – but I’d really love to learn to make it on my own! Hope you have a blessed day – and thanks for your efforts in sharing great recipes! I love your site!
I have 2 special needs children out of four! One has had 5 open heart surgeries and the other is autistic. Homemade bread is wonderful in that it gives me control of the ingredients. All of the children love the bread and they all love to ‘help’ mold the dough into shapes. Then they brag to daddy about what a wonderful job they have done ‘making’ bread! It is fun for them and yummy for all. The book would be wonderful for the benefit of the health tips alone. Thank you!
What a great giveaway! I’d LOVE to try these recipes!
This cookbook sounds great. I would love a copy.
Love the book! Bread usually equals refined products and massive carb overload! Not the case here! Health grains to contribute to your daily allowances! I won’t feel guilty about ingesting these carbs!
Gotta love good bread!
Never had a real cookbook before, just got to college and am starting to get into it. This book sounds wonderful!
Matthew
College time is fun, Matthew. How many burners do you have to cook with? Do you have your basic kitchen tools?
I could live on bread and butter for the rest of my life, but alas, I’m not a very good baker. I could really use this book and would love to be a winner. Thanks very much.
I could just live on good bread and fruit and cheese. One of the things I miss about home is our good bread. There are many things to enjoy in the US but good bread is hard/expensive to find. Call me a desperate woman BUT I am REALLY hoping that I win the book giveaway. Just to re-connect my family with what a beautiful loaf of bread tastes like would be incredible! Thank you for your website – I love receiving your updates.
Thank you, Tanya!
I could live on fresh bread, fruits and cheese, too and spinach. I love spinach. Did you see the Spinach Feta Bread recipe? It’s easy, easy to make and it is our favorite with dinner and I like it as a breakfast toast.
http://simpledailyrecipes.com/spinach-feta-bread/
I can’t wait to find out who win’s the first book! My stomach is one big knot of excitement for you all.
Remember, I have 5 books, one to giveaway each week. Just keep entering once a week for a chance to win.
I’d love to know more about breads. I have a very old breadmaker that I got secondhand, but have always been afraid to use it. Maybe an up-to-date book about breads is just the thing I need to jump start me.
I would love to add this cookbook to my growing cookbook library. I have had renewed energy lately to try new recipes, much to my husband’s dismay sometimes.
LOL! My husband knows your husband’s pain.
I’ve learned to ignore his first look into the cooking pots and just get dinner to the table. My husband can be just as picky as the 6-year old. He won’t admit it to anyone else, but he’s picky.
I’ve also learned to make lunch time, My Special Meal Time. It’s when I can eat all the eggplant, spinach, tabbouleh, mushrooms, fish, etc…I want to eat without the looks.
In the past few years, I have begun baking 90% of the bread that I eat. I did so in part because of the amazing taste of freshly baked bread, but also because I wanted to control the ingredients. The recipes in your new book sound like they’d be just right for me.
Started baking bread again two years ago when I needed french bread for dinner that evening, and “the bread man” would not be up the hill for two more days!! Now, I do all our bread, and I’ve started with bagels (so easy!!). I want to try English muffins next. Certainly don’t miss all the preservatives! It would be fun to try the Healthy versions in the new book.