Breadsong

Name: Breadsong
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ISBN: 9781526631855

How Baking Changed Our Lives

Kitty Tait, Al Tait

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English

Bloomsbury
03 May 2022

Memoirs; Cookery, food & drink; Quick & easy cooking; Cookery by ingredient; Cakes, baking, icing & sugarcraft

'A book to warm heart and soul - and satisfy the stomach' Delicious Magazine 'Kitty Tait tells a brave and beautiful story of what it is to be human' Mel Giedroyc 'Uplifting, inspiring, heartfelt and with wonderful recipes to boot' Georgina Hayden

'If you had told me at 14 when I couldn't even get out of bed with depression and anxiety that three years later I would have written a book I would never have believed you. But here it is - the story of the Orange Bakery. How I went from bed to bread and how my Dad went from being a teacher to a baker. You reading it means everything to me' Kitty Tait

Breadsong tells the story of Kitty Tait who was a chatty, bouncy and full-of-life 14 year old until she was overwhelmed by an ever-thickening cloud of depression and anxiety and she withdrew from the world. Her desperate family tried everything to help her but she slipped further away from them.

One day her dad Alex, a teacher, baked a loaf of bread with her and that small moment changed everything. One loaf quickly escalated into an obsession and Kitty started to find her way out of the terrible place she was in. Baking bread was the one thing that made any sense to her and before long she was making loaves for half her village. After a few whirlwind months, she and her dad opened the Orange Bakery, where queues now regularly snake down the street.

Breadsong is also a cookbook full of Kitty's favourite recipes, including: - the Comfort loaf made with Marmite, and with a crust that tastes like Twiglets - bitesize queue nibbles, doughnuts with an ever-changing filling to keep the bakery queue happy - sticky fika buns with mix-and-match fillings such as cardamom and orange - Happy Bread covered with salted caramel - cheese straws made with easy homemade ruff puff pastry - the ultimate brown butter and choc chip cookies with the perfect combination of gooey centre and crispy edges.

This is a cookbook to curl up with first, bake from second.

*WINNER
* - FORTNUM & MASON DEBUT FOOD BOOK AWARD 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDRÉ SIMON BEST COOKBOOK AWARD 2023 THE TIMES - BEST FOOD BOOKS of 2022 THE WEEK – BEST FOOD BOOKS OF 2022 DELICIOUS MAGAZINE – BEST COOK BOOKS OF 2022

By: Kitty Tait, Al Tait
Imprint: Bloomsbury
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 248mm, Width: 172mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 940g
ISBN: 9781526631855
ISBN 10: 1526631857
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 03 May 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kitty Tait and her Dad Al live in Watlington, Oxfordshire and between them run the Orange Bakery. From the most original flavoured sourdough (miso and sesame, fig and walnut) to huge piles of cinnamon buns and Marmite and cheese swirls, the shop sells out every day and the queues stretch down the street. In 2018, Kitty was at school and Al worked at Oxford University, but when Kitty became so ill she couldn't leave the house, the two discovered baking and, in particular, sourdough. Chronicled in Kitty's Instagram @kittytaitbaker they went from a small subscription service to pop-ups to a shop - all in two years. Along the way Kitty got better, a Corgi got involved and Al realised that he was now a baker not a teacher.

Reviews for Breadsong: How Baking Changed Our Lives

Just when I thought I didn't have anything left to learn about bread, Kitty teaches me otherwise. Accessible, engaging and wonderfully wide ranging -- Felicity Cloake Breadsong is everything I could ever wish for from a book. Kitty is a true inspiration. I see her passion, her writing and her baking and I can't help but be filled with joy. I can't wait to see what she does next -- James Morton Breadsong is exactly the kind of cookbook I love to curl up with - uplifting, inspiring, heartfelt and with wonderful recipes to boot. The best recipes are filled with heart and this book is just that -- Georgina Hayden