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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
This book is a real education in bread baking. You'll learn the science behind the process; as another reviewer stated, you'll feel like you are sitting in one of the author's classes at Johnson & Wales University. You'll learn various dough-shaping techniques, including tips that I otherwise would never have known, like how to create surface tension so that the loaf will rise up and not just out. Basically, you will learn everything you need to know to create really great bread and you'll learn it in an engaging, easy-to-read manner from a person who obviously has a real (and contagious) love for good food. You may find as I did that to begin with you will have to do a lot of… Read more
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There were three things I especially liked about this book. The first was the way the author presented the fact that small things do add up. In the beginning of the book, he states that most people overestimate (financially) what they can accomplish in a year and underestimate what they can accomplish over many years. He includes graphs that illustrate this dramatically. The second was the chapter on values. This chapter had a number of exercises for each partner to complete independently. Then, together, they can begin to draft a plan for their finances that embraces the values they each hold most closely. If the financial plan is customized to fit the values of the particular… Read more
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I bought this CD for the following reason: I had decided to start up a walking program and I wanted some music to walk to. I read the following suggestion for walking music: Marches! (To give credit where credit is due: Anne Barone is the author I'm referring to; she has two books listed on www.amazon.com. Ms. Barone mentioned that marches were designed to have the beat and "mood" to keep tired soldiery marching. Made sense to me.) I'm happy to say that this is great walking music. It's not something most people would listen to for the sake of beauty per se (although the songs are by no means unpleasant to listen to), but it's the perfect tempo for walking, which is why… Read more
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