Meet the Author - Sarah Becan

Name: Meet the Author - Sarah Becan
Start: 2024-06-23T14:30:00-05:00
Location: Beaverdale Books

Schedule

Sun Jun 23 2024 at 02:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Beaverdale Books | Des Moines, IA

An accessible and easy-to-follow comic book cookbook for baking delicious breads, featuring a basic universal method, guidelines for maintaining a sourdough starter, and recipes for classic loaves and fun new riffs, from the beloved author of Flour Water Salt Yeast. New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Ken Forkish adapts his expert bread baking tips and recipes from Evolutions in Bread and Flour Water Salt Yeast for the fun, beginner-friendly comic book cookbook format. With comics artist Sarah Becan’s lively and colorful illustrations, Let’s Make Bread! invites readers to embark on the journey of making bread with this new visual twist.
Forkish and Becan provide valuable tips for the first-time bread maker, from the necessary equipment and ingredients to the basic eight-step bread method. They explain how to start, feed, maintain, and share a sourdough starter and include valuable troubleshooting tips for temperature, dough texture, proofing, and more. Pairing foolproof techniques and recipes with an exciting and inviting comic format, Let’s Make Bread! is an enjoyable guide to making your own perfect loaf at home.
Sarah Becan has been drawing comics since she was very small. Her food-based webcomic, I Think You’re Sauce, sparked a love of food and culinary illustration, and her work has since appeared in various publications, including Saveur Magazine, Eater.com, StarChefs, and the Chicago Reader. Her first graphic novel, The Complete Ouija Interviews, was a recipient of a Xeric award, and she illustrated The Adventures of Fat Rice (2016). She is the coauthor and illustrator of Let’s Make Ramen! (2019), and Let’s Make Dumplings! (2021), and the most recent Let’s Make Bread!, coauthored with baker Ken Forkish. She lives in Chicago with her partner Niles and their cat Toki, and she would be very happy to do nothing but draw food all day.