NANCY SILVERTON'S BREADS FROM THE LA BREA BAKERY Recipes for the Connoisseur by Silverton, Nancy - 1996

NY: Villard Books. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 0679409076; Binding is almost as new, with the top of the spine gently bumped. Very minor edge foxing. Chkristmas gift note on half-title page. Contents are almost as new, with no writing or other entries on the text. Very minor wear and soil on the price-clipped DJ. ; Fourth Printing of the First Edition, cprt 1996. 7-5/8" x 9-1/2", XXVI + 260p. White and very light tan smooth, wipeable covers, medium brown spine lettering. COOKBOOK. "Nancy Silverton, a onetime pastry chef at Michael's, the original pastry chef at the world-famous Spago, and today quite simply the best bread baker in the country, shares her magical La Brea Bakery recipes, painstakingly crafted during years of trial and error, here perfected and adapted for home bakers. This beautifullly illustrated with b/w photos, ultrasophisticated cookbook is also accessible and user-friendly. Silverton carefully and lovingly explains the wonder of bread alchemy, and then come the recipes. " Color-photo illustrated endpapers, with differnt, multiple photos on front and back. Index. .