822: The King Arthur Baking Company's Big Book of Bread with Jessica Battilana and Martin Philip

The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

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Arts, Food

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This week, we dedicate the entire episode to answering your bread baking questions with two brilliant bakers and teachers, King Author’s very own Jessica Battilana, Staff Editor, and Martin Philip, King Arthur’s Head Bread Baker. While King Arthur has taught millions of people to bake through their school, website, and classic cookbooks. They only now have published a book devoted entirely to bread, The King Arthur Baking Company’s Big Book of Bread. Francis, Jessica, and Martin take listener questions on everything from the “why” behind the flavor of English Muffins, best proofing practices, what to do with extra laminated dough (if you can imagine having that problem!), and why they consider "toast" a food group all its own. Don't miss their recipe for Masa Honey Toasting Bread.

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March 7, 2025 (originally aired)

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1:18.2	It may sound like obscure praise to say someone is an icon in the world of milling,
1:24.6	but the folks at King Arthur Bacon Company definitely are that, and they are definitely
1:29.4	very proud of it. This unique company built itself on selling flour to bakers, but has since
1:35.6	grown to have a whole baking education business, a massive online collection of thousands
1:41.8	recipes, classic cookbooks, a baking hotline you can call, and even
1:47.3	several actual baking schools. But through all of that, they never had a cookbook devoted solely
1:54.2	to bread. Until now, the King Arthur Baking Company's big book of bread is a landmark publication.
2:02.1	I just love this book.
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