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Welcome to The Modern Baker

The Modern Baker is my new book, published in September 2008 by DK Publishing. In it, I show you how today's baker takes a new approach to baking, using the most up-to-date tools and techniques to bake everything from bread to biscotti to puff pastry to old-fashioned layer cakes easily and quickly—in many cases in under an hour. The Modern Baker contains chapters devoted to quick breads; breads; yeast-risen specialties; savory tarts and pies; sweet tarts and pies; puff pastries; cakes; and cookies, bars, and biscotti; as well as a thorough tutorial on ingredients, equipment, and techniques.

The Modern Baker is also a website, where I'll be posting videos demonstrating essential baking techniques. Some of these videos will walk you through a general technique that you can use in lots of different recipes; others will simply show you a tip for making a particular recipe with much less difficulty. By checking the website regularly, you'll get lots of visuals to accompany the instructions in my recipes in The Modern Baker, making it even easier to achieve stellar results.

Please take a look at my general website, www.NickMalgieri.com. That's the place to go for recipes that aren't in The Modern Baker, a schedule of classes I'll be teaching or events where I'll be appearing in the near future, and to ask any questions about baking you may have.

The Modern Baker’s Basics

An archive of past videos is available by clicking here.

Click here to see me baking with Isaac Mizrahi: preparing yeast, making the dough, baking the bread

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Photographs: Charles Schiller
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