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The eagerly anticipated baking bible from America's most respected authority: 100 recipes for cookies, cakes, breads, breakfast pastries, and much more.. "Nancy Silverton baked a brioche so perfect that it brought Julia Child to tears...Nancy showed us how to strip away the extras and spotlight the essentials. She's still doing that and we're all still learning from her." - Dorie Greenspan, author of Dorie's Cookies. Nancy Silverton made her reputation as the original pastry chef for Wolfgang Puck's restaurant Spago. Biting into a particularly delicious peanut butter cookie one day, she and had an epiphany: every single thing we bake should taste this good. And so she decided to return to her roots, and set to work perfecting the rest of the American baking canon.