News: New cookbook from Katarina Cermelj

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Katarina Cermelj has written another cookbook. The Elements of Baking teaches you how to make any recipe gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free, vegan, or even gluten-free vegan, and it uses quantitative rules, not just vibes, which means it tells you exactly how to convert pretty much any baking recipe into whatever free-from version you want, and it has 140 recipes. It's slated to come out in October, but you can pre-order a copy now.

I have a lot of respect for Cermelj's work. I have her first cookbook, Baked to Perfection (link goes to my review), and follow her blog, The Loopy Whisk, and her breads are truly excellent. I've made her soft sandwich bread, a free-form batard, an olive loaf, and a chewy Mediterranean dinner roll, and they're all delicious and have a texture appropriate for their forms.

Cermelj is also heavily into desserts, which I haven't tried because she's also heavily into dairy products, but as mific shared in our dessert prompt post last month, elodieunderglass posted some photos of a GF rough puff pastry made using Cermelj's recipe, and the results are impressive.