Bread and Roses: 100+ Grain Forward Recipes featuring Global Ingredients and Botanicals

by Rose Wilde

Discover brown-flour baking with the charismatic Rose Wilde―a grain geek hungry for texture, flavor, and diversity of ingredients. In her extraordinary debut cookbook, Rose Wilde shares her joy of grain. From buckwheat, barley, and brown rice to spelt, sonora, and sweet corn, Bread and Roses is a comprehensive guide to choosing ingredients with an impact beyond the plate, resulting in delicious results. Wilde’s recipes are inspired by her global travels and include more than 100 unique bakes. Readers will learn the origins and basic science behind more than fifteen ancient, heirloom, and alternative grains; how to enhance depth of flavor by tasting for tannins, body, acidity, strength, and hydration; and the proper way to source and preserve ingredients from local farmers and their own backyard. The possibilities for grain-based goodies are endless as Wilde encourages bakers of every level to develop their relationship with grains and grow confidence and creativity in an eco-friendly kitchen. Bread and Roses is the book everyone needs to make their bakes blossom. 125 color photographs; 40 illustrations

Genres: Cookbooks, Food, Nonfiction, Cooking

304 pages, Hardcover

Published October 24, 2023

Reviews

[Miss✧Pickypants ᓚᘏᗢ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bakers seeking inspiration will appreciate the interesting and unique recipes crafted by the author. While the title* is a clever take on the well-known phrase, it almost serves as a disservice because one might assume, as I did, this is a bread cookbook when in fact it is an ingredient focused cookbook, and a really cool one at that.

Using a variety of grains from around the world, some familiar and some not, recipes are well-written and easy to follow. There are recipes for all levels of cooks, ranging from simple cookies and pasta to more complex cream puffs and cakes. Tasteful, saliva inducing photos are included for almost every recipe.

*For the title on the physical book, "Bread and Roses" is a raised gold-leaf colored font, 4-5 times larger than the non-raised light yellow subheading. One other item of note, the first page of the book provides several disclaimers touching on several different points, from food safety to opinions and links to websites. Don't recall seeing anything like this before in a cookbook, struck me as odd and made me wonder if this will be part of a new trend, and if so, why? Is it truly needed or is this CYA to the extreme? Would be interested to hear other's take on it...

[Jo · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very unique cookbook featuring alternative grains from around the world. I don't see myself making a lot of the recipes, simply due to not stocking these types of flour regularly, but I appreciate the creativity that Rose Wilde presents.

Measurements are given only be weight, so be warned if you don't own a kitchen scale. Many of the bread recipes can be adjusted to use just yeast, just sourdough starter, or a hybrid method, which is great for flexibility. One small nitpick: there are a few recipes that call for "active starter" in the ingredients, and then at the very end of the recipe, it'll say you can use active or inactive starter since it's just there to provide taste/nutrition. If that's the case, why don't they just write "starter" in the ingredients like they do for some of the recipes already?

[Cherie · Rating 3 out of 5]

A gorgeous book and the recipes sound lovely, but not always easy or full of easy-to-find ingredients. The book has a focus on both grains AND herbal ingredients, and some of the recipes sound AMAZING. Also, to note - Americans who aren't familiar with grams, metric, will stumble, but those folks can use Google conversion and write notes in their cookbook.

[Margery Osborne · Rating 5 out of 5]

making those brown butter date blondies for sure