OK, so it’s not brand new (it came out in May) but it is a baking memoir (I promised three in a row, remember?) and it is by a man (it being MEN’S WEEK), so this is as good a time as any to flag up William Alexander’s bread-based true story, 52 Loaves: One Man’s Relentless Pursuit of Truth, Meaning, and a Perfect Crust.
According to the author’s website, the book is: A yearlong odyssey spanning three continents, a backyard wheat field, two exploding ovens, one herniated vertebra, a prolonged battle with food poisoning, a crisis of faith, and a thirteen-hundred-year-old monastery, in pursuit of a single goal — baking the perfect loaf of bread.
