Groundbreaking E-Cookbook Published Exclusively Online Has a Spiritual Take on Bread

100 Loaves: Breadmaking as Meditation, by Carol Pentleton, is a groundbreaking e-cookbook that has just been published by The Digital Artist. In an effort to make the book available as widely and inexpensively as possible to cooks, bread bakers and bread lovers around the world, the book is available exclusively online.

Chepachet, RI /PR Web/ 100 Loaves: Breadmaking as Meditation, by Carol Pentleton, is a groundbreaking e-cookbook that has just been published by The Digital Artist. In an effort to make the book available as widely and inexpensively as possible to cooks, bread bakers and bread lovers around the world, the book is available exclusively online. (http://www.thenewplace.com/bread)

The beauty of making bread by hand is that you get to touch it and smell it and look at it and taste it and even listen to it," says author Carol Pentleton. The dough is always telling you something. Just knead the bread, and then there is bread and perhaps something else: perhaps there is a change in the atmosphere or a change in you. All you have to do is be genuinely present in the creative moment."

One Hundred Loaves: Breadmaking as Meditation is a contemplative e-cookbook. It brings together one hundred original recipes inspired by global traditions, words of wisdom from philosophers and wits through the ages and guides to mindfulness during the breadmaking process.

The book includes thorough basic instruction in the art and science of baking bread that will ensure success, even for beginners. Subsequent chapters focus on specific breadmaking methods and traditions, such as

· Conventional and uncommon leavenings
· Traditional, alternate and multiple grains
· Breads from virtually every corner of the world
· Sweet breads
· Herbal and savory breads

Although bread is often connected with spirit (it's mentioned in prayers and used in liturgy, for example), One Hundred Loaves is unique in its meditative and multicultural approach to breadmaking.

The author's experience as a bread baker began as a teenager, and she has created, tested and collected recipes for almost thirty years. As an adult, she started to make bread as a social activity, in the company of friends. The conversation and companionship awakened her to the larger significance inherent in this experience. Her background in the creation of cookbooks includes serving as the freelance editor and designer of two cookbooks for Edible Editions (The Occasional Cookie and The Fabulous Fresh Vegetable, both written by Bobbi Cobb). The author is also an artist and designer, who regularly exhibits her work in galleries in the United States. She is also the creator of The Digital Artist, a global exhibit and art business destination for artists, designers, artisans and art buyers. Carol Pentleton loves and works in Chepachet, Rhode Island, USA.

The book can be found at http://www.thenewplace.com/bread and is available for immediate download US$3.95.