Dobre Dobre
Baking from Poland and Beyond
$40.85
- Hardcover
360 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2025
Summary
Discover the vast and varied Polish baking tradition, old and new, Jewish and diasporic, in this authoritative collection of 120+ recipes from James Beard Award finalist Laurel Kratochvila.
Poland’s distinctive baking culture is a product of its rich and complicated history, from the World Wars to the rise of Communism to the cultural exchange that inevitably happens to a country with seven neighbors and endless migration. Step into the Polish piekarnia (bakery) and be greeted by an a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781797232096 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1797232096 |
| Author: | Laurel Kratochvila, Malgosia Minta |
| Publisher: | Chronicle Books |
| Imprint: | Chronicle Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 360 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 1.25kg |
| Dimensions: | 36mm x 195mm x 266mm |
| Audience Age: | 0-99 |
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Critics Review
“The poetry and romance of Polish baking leaps out of the pages of Dobre Dobre. Bilberry-stuffed buns and walnut-shaped cookies sound like offerings from a fairytale. From Karpatka to Baletki, Proziaki to Piernik, there is so much to discover and fall in love with in this beautifully photographed and comprehensively researched cookbook. Laurel’s affection for and fascination with Poland’s baking tradition is infectious and the results are delectable.”
— Luisa Weiss, author of Classic German Cooking and Classic German Baking
“[Kratochvila’s] beautifully-illustrated 329-recipe cookbook reads at least partially as an archaeological expedition, as she excavates how deeply Jewish bakers shaped Polish cuisine — and how their legacy survived even after most of the bakers themselves did not.” —The Forward
“This will be irresistible to anyone hoping to find the culinary key that unlocks the good, not too sweet secrets of Polish baking.” —Library Journal, Starred Review
”[T]he American-born cookbook author Laurel Kratochvila leads us down the gloriously buttery, poppy-seed-strewn path of modern and classic Polish baking. […] Ms. Kratochvila’s prose is smart, funny and often moving, giving us cultural and historical context for Eastern European culinary traditions and making this book as delightful to read as it is to bake from.” —Melissa Clark for The New York Times
Laurel Kratochvila
Laurel Kratochvila is an American-born writer and baker based in Berlin and trained in France. She runs the iconic Fine Bagels bakery and the natural wine bar, Le Balto. Her first book, New European Baking, was a finalist for a James Beard award in 2023.
Malgosia Minta is a celebrated photographer, food journalist, and food historian, as well as the author of five cookbooks. Based in Warsaw, she was also the photographer for New European Baking.
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