A playful-yet-comprehensive cookbook that lets anyone create bagels, schmears, and other deli favorites at home.Bagel lovers rejoice! This delightful cookbook makes it easy to bake fresh bagels in your own kitchen with just five base ingredients and simple techniques. With advice on mixing the dough, shaping the bagels, proofing, boiling, baking, slicing, and storing, you will be a master bagel-maker in no time.Recipes include two dozen variations on the Ne...

**2015 IACP Award Winner, Best Single Subject CookbookA householder's guide to canning through the seasons.**In Mrs. Wheelbarrow's Practical Pantry, food preserving expert Cathy Barrow presents a beautiful collection of essential preserving techniques for turning the fleeting abundance of the farmers’ market into a well-stocked pantry full of canned fruits and vegetables, jams, stocks, soups, and more.As Cathy writes in her introduction, “A walk through the...

Following up on PIE SQUARED's slab pies, food writer Cathy Barrow finds more ways to use pastry dough deliciously with crowd-pleasing (and easy to make) galettes and small tarts, as well as empanadas, strudels, and knishes. Barrow digs into a world of doughs for turnovers, fried pies, poppers, and Texas-by-way-of-Krakow kolaches, all offered in sweet and savory iterations.WHEN PIES FLY guides the rolling pin novice and the experienced dough wrangler to dozens of shapes and styles o...

The James Beard Award Nominee for Best Cookbook: Baking and Desserts serves up the delicious new food trend of slab pies—sweet or savory.For those of you who aren't up on your Pinterest and TikTok food trends, slab pie is just like regular pie—only better (and bigger)! Instead of crimping and meticulously rolling out a round crust, slab pies are an unfussy twist that are perfect for a potluck or dinner party or just a family dinner. Baked on sheet pans, slab pies ca...