Good bread need more than just flour and water, milk or eggs. It requires nurturing and care. In this twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the international best-seller that started a generation of Americans baking, Ed Brown shows how to make-and enjoy-breads, pasteries, muffins, and desserts for today`s sophisticated palates. And in a new afterword, he reflects on the widespread influence of the book, and offers five new recipes. Edward Espe Brown was ordained as a Zen priest in 1971. He is past president of and resident teacher at the San Francisco Zen Center, and helped found and run the enormously successful Greens restaurant in San Francisco. Over the past ten years he has been leading meditation retreats and teaching cooking classes.