The Pain d'Avignon Baking Book: A War, An Unlikely Bakery, and a Master Class in Bread

Five-star bread and pastry recipes, and a tale of adventure, from an iconic East Coast bakery.

A good loaf of bread has the power to bring—and keep—people together, wherever they may be. In a journey that started in Belgrade amid the beginnings of war, and continued in America, four friends tested this philosophy to the extreme: They began a new life and opened a tiny bakery together on Cape Cod. Working hectic, twenty-four-hour days, while living all together in a loft above their business ...