Join Erik Fabian for a season 1 wrap up of the Bake This Book podcast.

What trends emerged this season?

Will there be another season?

Any final tips for bakers?

Give this final episode a listen and find out.

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We circle up for a special 2025 holiday gift guide episode for anyone shopping for sourdough cookbooks this year.

Erik Fabian is joined by Brandon Cochran (@sourdoughbrandon) and Andra Stefanescu (@sourdough_explained) for a discussion of what makes a good cookbook.

We make our cookbook gift picks for new and experienced bakers as well as those wanting to get into sourdough pizza.

If a baker you love is on your holiday gift list this year, this episode is for you.

More from Brandon Cochran:

• sourdoughbrandon.com
• IG: @sourdoughbrandon

More from Andra Stefanescu:

• IG: @sourdough_explained

More About Sourhouse:

• sourhouse.co
• IG: @lifeatsourhouse
• Sourhouse Gift Guide (2025): sourhouse.co/giftguide

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Erik Fabian talks with Daniel Leader about his latest book: A Slow Rise: Favorite Recipes from Four Decades of Baking with Heart.

Daniel Leader is the founder of Bread Alone Bakery in New York state. A sourdough baking pioneer, he has written cookbooks for over 25 years including: Bread Alone: Bold Fresh Loaves from Your Own Hands and the James Beard Award winning Living Bread.

A Slow Rise charts the history of Bread Alone and showcases its most beloved recipes. From revolutionizing artisan bread making in the eighties to operating the country’s first carbon-neutral bakery today, Bread Alone has existed at the cutting edge of bread and pastry for over forty years. Across more than sixty recipes, Leader teaches you to bake with your senses, have patience, and form an almost meditative practice in the kitchen.

We talk about his books, how the culture of sourdough baking has changed in the last 30 years and how to learn professional baking secrets from bakers.

Where to buy A Slow Rise:

• danleader.com/books

More about Daniel Leader:

• danleader.com
• IG: @danmakesbread & @breadalonebakery

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• sourhouse.co
• IG: @lifeatsourhouse

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Erik Fabian talks with Jennifer Yoko Olson about the newly released and expanded 4th edition of the Sourhouse Community Cookbook.

Erik and Jenny co-founded Sourhouse and created the original version of the Sourhouse Community Cookbook as a bonus for the 1200+ Kickstarter backers that supported their first campaign. It has since been downloaded over 200k times and now in it's 4th edition to over 70 pages of sourdough recipes and tips contributed by the Sourhouse community.

Jenny is an industrial designer whose work has been featured in Design Milk, Core 77 and Fast Company. She has created projects for Thinx, Starry, and Base 10 Furniture. Jenny is a homebaker in search for the perfect loaf. She eats natto everyday.

We talk about how the Sourhouse Community Cookbook was developed over the years, the design choices we made and about Jenny's views on design and baking.

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• sourhouse.co
• IG: @lifeatsourhouse

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Erik Fabian talks with Aran Goyoaga about her new book: The Art of Gluten-Free Bread.

Aran Goyoaga is a fourth-generation baker, cookbook author, food stylist, and photographer. She is three-times James Beard award-nominated recipe developer and food blogger.

Her blog Cannelle et Vanille has been featured in many publications such as New York Times, Washington Post, Food 52, Martha Stewart, Good Morning America, Bon Appetit, Saveur, Seattle Times, CNN, and many more.

Aran was born in Bil-bao (Spain’s Basque Country) to a family of pastry chefs and farmers. She moved to the United States in her early 20s where she trained to become a professional pastry chef. After a few years working in fine-dining professional kitchens, she turned to food styling and photography. Aran resides in Seattle with her husband and two children.

The Art of Gluten-Free Bread shares Aran's secrets to the perfect gluten-free loaf, and offers 100 recipes for the breads and pastries that those with gluten-intolerance dearly miss. Think biscuits, bagels, and the flakiest croissants. This will be your gluten-free bread bible.

We talk about her book, about making cookbooks today, about using gluten-free flours to expand the flavors of our sourdough breads, and her background in pastry.

Where to buy The Art of Gluten-Free Bread:

• arangoyoaga.com/cookbooks

More about Aran Goyoaga:

• arangoyoaga.com
• IG: @cannellevanille

More About Sourhouse:

• sourhouse.co
• IG: @lifeatsourhouse

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Erik Fabian talks with Jonathan Stevens about this book: Hungry Ghost Bread Book: An Offbeat Bakery's Guide to Crafting Sourdough Loaves, Flatbreads, Crackers, Scones, and More.

Jonathan Stevens has been a bread baker for over thirty years.

His baking journey took him from stay-at-home dad, to cottage business to co-founding Hungry Ghost Bread in 2004 Northampton, MA with Cheryl Maffie. Hungry Ghost Bread has been nominated for a James Beard Award six times and has become an essential meeting place and source of excellent bread in their community.

Hungry Ghost Bread Book is his long-awaited, much-debated, deeply-fermented collection of bread and pastry recipes, techniques, production schedules, grain meanderings and a handful of poems. It is what 20 plus years of practicing the craft has refined: an approach to bread that emphasizes flavor, nutrition and connection to farmers, millers, eaters and the whole (pre-) history of wheat.

We talk about his book, about making cookbooks today, about poetry, and lots of nuances of making sourdough "that bites back".

Where to buy Hungry Ghost Bread Book: An Offbeat Bakery's Guide to Crafting Sourdough Loaves, Flatbreads, Crackers, Scones, and More:

• https://hungryghostbread.com/bread-book/
• Bookshop.org

More about Jonathan Stevens:

• hungryghostbread.com
• IG: @hungryghostbread
• Free Poetry by Jonathan: https://hungryghostbread.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/BreadPoems_JonathanStevens.pdf
• Jonathan's music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/69sr8Mor7LmBMIcboo7l5b

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• sourhouse.co
• IG: @lifeatsourhouse

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Erik Fabian talks with Amy Coyne about her new book: The Beginner’s Guide to Sourdough: Best-Kept Secrets for Successful Bread Every Time.

Amy Coyne is a recipe developer who has been baking sourdough for over a decade and is the creator of Amy Bakes Bread, where she shares sourdough tips and recipes.

Known for her beginner-friendly sourdough masterclass and family-friendly recipes, Amy has years of experience teaching others how to make their own natural yeast bread. She currently resides in Kentucky with her family.

Her book features 50 family-friendly recipes organized to optimize success, with each chapter allowing readers to master different elements of sourdough. The book includes step-by-step photos, QR codes linked to video tutorials, temperature timelines, and sourdough starter ratio tables. It covers everything from basic loaves to artisanal favorites like Everything Bagel Loaves and Chocolate Cherry Sourdough, plus a chapter on discard recipes.

We talk about her book, teaching sourdough to new bakers, making sourdough, her how she got started with sourdough baking.

Where to buy The Beginner’s Guide to Sourdough: Best-Kept Secrets for Successful Bread Every Time:

• amybakesbread.com/cookbooks

More About Amy Coyne:

• amybakesbread.com
• IG: @amybakesbread

More About Sourhouse:

• sourhouse.co
• IG: @lifeatsourhouse

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Erik Fabian talks with Sarah Owens about the 10th anniversary of her James Beard Award winning cookbook: Sourdough: Recipes for Rustic Fermented Breads, Sweets, Savories, and More

Sarah is a horticulturist, sourdough instructor, and cookbook author who specializes in fermentation and sourdough.

The new edition expands on her acclaimed work with rustic fermented breads, sweets, and savory applications, incorporating her deep knowledge of both horticulture and fermentation science.

We talk about her book, the impact it has had on her and the sourdough community, making sourdough, her next book and how the culture of sourdough baking has changed over the last 10 years.

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Where to buy Sourdough: Recipes for Rustic Fermented Breads, Sweets, Savories, and More:

• shambhala.com
• Bookshop.org
• Amazon

More About Sarah Owens:

• ritualfinefoods.com
• IG: @sarah_c_owens

More About Sourhouse:

• sourhouse.co
• IG: @lifeatsourhouse

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