Bread is a staple food in many cultures around the world, and this book celebrates the very best of them from classic breads such as Irish Soda Bread, Polish Rye Bread and Indian Parathas to lesser-known breads like Portuguese Corn Bread and Syrian Onion Bread. Baking your own bread is a rewarding activity where you can experiment with a mixture of flours, spices, nuts and seeds to create unique flavours and textures. Here you will learn every stage of the bread-making process from mixing and kneading to glazing and baking. Information on the different flours to use, how leavens work, and the variety of additional ingredients that can be added to bread is also given. The book concludes with 100 fabulous international bread recipes with step-by-step instructions and photographs to help you get the most out of the satisfying art of baking bread.