From the Wood-Fired Oven - New and Traditional Techniques for Cooking and Baking with Fire

"Richard Miscovich-s descriptions and instructions are both practical and inspirationally poetic-dare I say, soulful. He ignites the fire within and compels us to want to know what he knows and to bake as well as he bakes."-Peter Reinhart, author of The Bread Baker-s Apprentice

In the last several years, interest in wood-fired ovens has increased dramatically in the United States and abroad, but most books focus on how to bake bread or pizza in an oven. From the Wood-Fired Oven offers many more techniques for home and artisan bakers-from baking bread and making pizza to recipes on how to get as much use as possible out of a single oven firing, from the first live-fire roasting to drying wood for the next fire.

From the Wood-Fired Oven offers a new take on traditional techniques for professional bakers, but is simple enough to inspire any nonprofessional baking enthusiast. Leading baker and instruct