IN-PERSON: Laurel Kratochvila

111 South Street,Plainville MA 02762

02 November, 2022

Description

Baker and author Laurel Kratochvila will visit An Unlikely Story to showcase her debut cookbook, New European Baking. Trained in France, Kratochvila is an American baker specializing in Jewish breads and pastries. Brought up in New England, she is now the owner of Fine Bagels  book and bagel store in Berlin, Germany. Laurel is a food consultant practicing recipe development and food styling (most recently for the hit Netflix show Unorthodox), and has given talks throughout Europe about Jewish food ways and baking history. Laurel will be in conversation with local chef, restauranteur and podcast host Avi Shemtov. Following their discussion will be an audience Q & A and book signing. Bagels will be served! TICKET OPTIONS: #1: Choose the ticket type "Admission & Book + In-Store Pickup". This ticket includes admission for one and one copy of NEW EUROPEAN BAKING and admission to the event. Your book will be waiting for you at the event. #2: Choose the ticket type "Admission + $5 coupon off the book". This ticket includes admission for one and and a $5.00 coupon that can be redeemed for $5.00 off your purchase of NEW EUROPEAN BAKING on the day of the event. The $5.00 coupon is only valid the day of the event on in-store purchases and will be given to attendees at check-in, one coupon per book. ABOUT THE BOOK: From sweet to savory, basic breads to fancy pastry, this elegant and thoroughly modern cookbook distills centuries of European tradition and heritage into mouthwatering recipes that home bakers can create in their own kitchens. Just like many pandemic-driven Americans, Europeans are turning on their ovens and rediscovering their roots through baking. This collection of nearly one hundred recipes is presented with elegant yet friendly flair by Laurel Kratochvila, an American-born, boulangerie-trained baker with her own Jewish bakery and bagel shop in Berlin. Each chapter is dedicated to a certain kind of baked product—breads, brioches and enriched doughs, viennoiseries and laminated pastries, tartes and biscuits—and includes foundational recipes and time-honored techniques for dough-shaping, fermentation, seasoning, and fillings. Sprinkled throughout the book are profiles introducing readers to eleven other European bakers who are turning out delicious pastries and breads that reflect the cultural heritage of their home cities of Paris, Warsaw, Copenhagen, Madrid, London, and Lisbon. Recipes such as Baltic rye bread, toasted sesame challah, elderflower maritozzi, honey and fig tropézienne, lamb and fennel sausage rolls, soft pretzels, and spicy ginger caramel shortbreads combine Old World traditions with twenty-first century flavors. Filled with luscious photography, and suitable for bakers at every level of experience, this sophisticated yet accessible guide to home baking is crammed with centuries of European history. ABOUT LAUREL: Trained in France, LAUREL KRATOCHVILA is an American baker specializing in Jewish breads and pastries. Brought up in New England, she is now the owner of Fine Bagels book and bagel store in Berlin, Germany. Laurel is a food consultant practising recipe development and food styling (most recently for the hit Netflix show Unorthodox), and has given talks throughout Europe about Jewish foodways and baking history.