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The Perfect Loaf 🍞

🍞 My cookbook is now available!

Published over 1 year ago • 1 min read

The Perfect Loaf is now available wherever cookbooks are sold 🎉

After researching, writing, testing (and testing), photographing, and more writing, the day is finally here:

The Perfect Loaf - The Craft and Science of Sourdough Breads, Sweets, and More is now available!

If you've pre-ordered a copy—thank you! Most preorders should be delivered today (or very soon).

If you've been waiting, you should now be able to find my cookbook anywhere cookbooks are sold, or you can order through the link above (even internationally).

Thank you so much for supporting The Perfect Loaf and my cookbook. I hope you love it.

Let's bake some bread!

Maurizio Leo

P.S. If you just got your book... The photos of me on page 426 are the byproduct of 10 straight days baking all 60 sourdough recipes in the book for the photoshoot 🤪

The Perfect Loaf 🍞

Maurizio Leo

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