Perfect book about how to make bread. I like this comics style. Really recommend read it with the kids.

Great comic like cookbook about different types of techniques and different bread recipes to create. Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for my honest feedback!

A fabulous cookbook! I can't get over how easily the drawings match the instructions.

From super easy instructions to follow with comic book style art, you can easily learn the art of breadmaking. There are details to how and why yeast rises, how water helps the bread rise as well, and lots of recipes to try after learning all about bread.

Thank you #NetGalley for #LetsMakeBread

This is a fun graphic novel for those looking to get into bread making or those who just live bread. I liked the bits of history too.

A nice graphic novel for adults and teens.

Thanks NetGalley for this ARC.

How fun! The perfect book for an aspiring brotmacher. I love the mini history of bread and especially love the Sample Schedule for each bread, which gives you a guesstimate of how long it will take to make your bread (from proofing to baking). The recipes were simple, the illustrations are engaging, and I can’t wait to start making bread!

This is a comic book about how to make bread written by well-known authors of conventional books about bread making. The books is well organized. I would recommend it to a teenager or an adult, who likes or prefers reading comic books and wants to explore bread making.

I've read <i> Let's Make Ramen! and Let's Make Dumplings!</i> before, so my thought is still the same that reading this makes me craving for a bread!!!! This graphic cookbook is gorgeous, informative, an incredibly fun.

<b>Thank You to Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed Press, Ten Speed Graphic for this Advamce Reader Copy.</b>

A brilliant concept to fully illustrate the baking process. Here baker Forkish and graphic artist Bacen work together to show you, step by step, the process of baking bread, when the physical acts of the kneading is so, so important to the process, and so handy here to see exactly what the instructions means. It also gets into the science of what is happening as bread is made, and everything is broken down in easy to follow pieces so that absolutely anyone could use this to make a delicious loaf of bread.

The Let's Make comic cookbooks are GENIOUS! I've loved them all, and this one is just as good as the others. It was so informative and easy to understand. I very much enjoyed it.

This is such a cool way to show the art of baking bread. It's already an intimidating idea, especially as a beginner, but seeing the comic book cookbook immediately gives a sense of whimsy. The table of contents includes: The First Rise, Basics & Methods, Levain, Recipes, and The Final Proof. Ken Forkish is the founder of Ken’s Artisan Bakery and a James Beard Award-winning cookbook author. He, and illustrator Sarah Becan, walk you through all the ingredients and equipment you will need. They assure us in the comic that with a bit of patience and effort there is no need to be intimidated about baking bread. Also it helps that no fancy equipment is needed except for one recipe.

I found the breakdown of the wheat berry to be really interesting. I admit the levain parts are still intimidating, at least the patience it takes is. The recipes can all be made in either a dutch oven or a bread pan, except for Butter Bread that requires a mixer and a dough hook attachment. The guide to the recipes is a quick overview of the recipes to follow and each recipe has a sample schedule. This is where having the comic book illustrations come in handy. Sometimes you just need to see it all mapped out down to the different times of day. Sarah Becan’s illustrations were so helpful and cute at the same time. It must have taken so long to illustrate every part of the process. The planning, patience, and persistence they talk about when baking bread must have been the same process when creating this book. It’s so great.

Special thanks to NetGalley and Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed Press, Ten Speed Graphic for sharing this book with me in exchange for my honest review.

I just started making bread so this book came at the perfect time. It is an extremely easy to read, concise graphic novel about the process of bread making. It features guided tutorials, such as which direction to knead your dough, and variations on recipes. I will say, as an amateur bread baker, some of what's included can be a bit too precise. I've been making bread without weighing ingredients, for example, but at the very beginning the author lists a scale as a needed equipment. Overall, a great recommended book for bread bakers!

Let’s Make Bread! is a comic book cook book that illustrates all the basics (and even some not so basics!) for how to make various types of bread.

What I Loved:
—I love the idea of a comic book cook book! I think it’s a super creative medium that works especially well for bread making.
—I think this would be a lovely gift for a baker or someone who is looking to get into bread making!
—the art style was simple, yet effective; I liked it.
—I LOVED that there was still an index in the back of the book; very practical!
—I really appreciated the suggested bread making schedule at the beginning of each recipe. I think knowing how long any given recipe will take, especially with proofing, is a big hurdle for new bakers that is made easier by this addition.

What I Didn’t Love:
—the book was sometimes repetitive, but I also see how this repetitiveness would be helpful for those looking at a specific recipe rather than reading it from start to finish.
—I thought the recipes could’ve been a bit more creative. I appreciated that there were so many riffs on the same style or type of bread, but I would’ve loved to see some more unique recipes.
—on the whole, I loved the colors and art styles; however, every once in a while there were pops of orange that seemed out of place to me/that weren’t my taste.

overall, I thought Let’s Make Bread! was a super creative book that seemed to hit every goal it wanted to: it was a beautiful book that presented both basic methods and recipes for bread making in fun and engaging format.

{as per request of the publisher, I will not post this review anywhere else until the week of the book's publishing date}

I adore these comic cookbooks that seem to be on the rise! They’re wonderful for imparting a lot of knowledge packed into a small amount of pages. The illustrations are especially helpful here, where you can actually see how to make the levain (sourdough starter), fold and proof the dough, etc. I will always champion this format, because I believe it makes certain subjects accessible to people that otherwise would not have picked up a “regular” book on said subject, for whatever reason (ADHD is the first one that comes to my mind, having it myself).

Baking can be very intimidating, especially bread baking, but in this comic, the team of Ken Forkish (James Beard award-winning baker) and illustrator Sarah Becan break down the process into manageable steps that are easy to follow. I personally am not quite in the stage of life where I could devote a lot of time to this process (when I do a hobby, I go ALL IN, folks—think ADHD hyperfocus, so I can only have one at a time), but I really feel that I *could* bake sourdough bread after reading this, and that’s huge, since in the past I’ve immediately dismissed the idea due to being intimidated. I think that other people will feel the same, and I hope that this comic inspires a new generation of bakers! Also….bacon bread….mmmm….

If you enjoy this format, Becan has also illustrated two other comics in this vein, entitled “Let’s Make Ramen!” and “Let’s Make Dumplings!”, which I will be checking out soon (my husband *loves* Asian food), Ken Forkish is well-known for his book, “Flour Water Salt Yeast”, and he also has published other books on both bread and pizza. I will be reading his “The Elements of Pizza”—I love pizza and want to gain Forkish’s insights on making it at home.

My sincere thanks to Clarkson Potter, Ten Speed Press and Ten Speed Comics for the opportunity to read an advance copy of this! All opinions are my own.

Please keep making more of these, Ten Speed Comics! Accessibility is so important, and what you’re doing is amazing.