FLOUR POWER

Learn how to make sourdough bread with the friendly and approachable help of Tara Jensen, reknowned sourdough teacher (including to stars like Claire Saffitz of DESSERT PERSON, who will be writing the foreword!). For any home bakers hungry to learn about bread making and sourdough, FLOUR POWER is a fun, fresh, and empowering bread master class with 80 recipes and insights from sourdough whisperer Tara Jensen.

FLOUR POWER is divided into two parts: the workshop and the recipes. In the workshop, bakers learn all about flour and how to build strength in dough by hand, read a bread formula, and troubleshoot sluggish starters and unruly doughs. The recipes section is divided into chapters by flour and bread type. There's a chapter on sourdough using white flour (Olive Loaf; Milk Bread), whole wheat desem (Cinnamon-Raisin Desem; Aloo Paratha), and rye (Honey and Aniseed Rye; Mountain Rye). And like any good professor, Tara offers a chapter on extra credit too, with recipes like Overnight Waffles, Sourdough Pie Crust, and Cheddar Crackers to make from "discard" (the starter you discard before "feeding" it). Recipes are categorized by difficulty level and there's also a helpful "snapshot" at the top of each recipe offering a start-to-finish quick takeaway of the loaf from how much time it actually takes to the pan size you need and type of loaf the bread makes.
Alongside stunning photography by Johnny Autry and playful, but informative illustrations by Hunter Barrett are all the tips and tricks you'll need to become a happy and proficient baker at home.

Tara Jensen is the author of A Baker's Year and has been baking professionally for over twenty years. She worked at Red Hen Baking in Middlesex, Vermont; Farm & Sparrow in Asheville, North Carolina; with Jennifer Lapidus at Carolina Ground, also in Asheville and ran her own bakery, Smoke Signals. Her bread and pies have been featured in publications such as Food & Wine and Bon Appétit and she teaches bread baking workshops in West Virginia, where she lives with her husband and daughter.
Tara's 110k Instagram followers love her encouraging voice and step-by-step tutorials on stories, as well as her friendly approach to sourdough. She has been called the "sourdough guru" by Bon Appétit and taught both Claire Saffitz and Sean Brock how to make sourdough as well as advises the test cooks at America's Test Kitchen on anything sourdough related. Her network includes fellow food stars like Alison Roman, Chad Robertson (of Tartine Bakery), and baking superstar Claire Saffitz. Her bread workshops sell out a year in advance and she has taught bread workshops in the BA test kitchen several times.