Thank for the positive referral. I will most likely end up getting this one.
yes I remember the outrage when that one female chef selected a winner without ever having made a single recipe from either book.
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Ooh. I haven’t baked any RLB recipes that I can recall.
@BarneyGrubble had started a dedicated thread for RLB a while back.
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Sally’s Baking is currently on sale as an ebook for $1.99 on amazon.
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I love that book! And I’m not Sally even tho various people in my life think that I am!
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Father Christmas brought me Stephen Harris’ “The Sportsman at Home”. Great restaurant - I’m looking forward to seeing how the food translates to the home kitchen.
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Santa brought me Dobre Dobre: Baking from Poland and Beyond.
Yay!
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I remember your raves, so I bought it.
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Ooo that baking and Viennoiserie book 
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Was not familiar with this chef. Please give us a review when you’ve tried a few dishes.
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Everyone’s holiday haul(s) look so tempting. We are in the throws of a garage conversion and it is really making me aware of how much I have of literally everything. And yet, after looking at your new shiny books, I so want to order some for myself! Something from Nothing will likely make its way onto my shelves at some point. My hope is to re-home 100 of my hard copy titles before acquiring it or anything else. I did of course add more titles to my shelves over the holidays - Rintaro, Mokonuts, and Donabe.
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Ive been wondering about that book bit I already have My Sweet Polish Kitchen
Did you pick up Polish while you were in Poland? Im just baking here and trying to have a conversation with myself in Polish. While growing up my next door friend was Polish and I picked it up very quickly since a lot of words are like Ukrainian. We spoke Ukrainian at home.
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I just put that book on the local library’s “Suggestion for purchase” page. I hope they get it in. That looks really, really good.
I really wanted that one as well- you’ve had so much success with it. I will prob buy it.
It’s glorious! It is, also, absolutely NOT for beginners. There are illustrations for various techniques, but you have to be comfortable producing yeasted and laminated doughs. There are some easier recipes in there, for cookies and far Breton, but a beginner would really struggle with most of the pastries and breads in here.
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Yes, I learned it intensively once we arrived, and then spoke it exclusively for two years.
I had some colleagues who were stationed in towns very near Ukraine, and they reported being able to converse in Polish with locals speaking Ukrainian. I myself had the experience of a brief conversation on a train platform in Warsaw (“Is this platform 4?” “Yes, it is.”) where it took me several moments to realize the other person was speaking Russian. I initially thought it was just a random Polish accent I had never heard before. Ha.
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Very much looking forward to your bakes from it 
