Bad bread is the one thing I refuse. I need good bread.

To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Mamá was mixing bread dough by the kitchen window, pressing and pulling in a culinary tug of war. It took all her strength to…

— Tess Almend�rez Lojacono

Good bread and good butter go together. They are one of the perfect marriages in gastronomy, and they never fail to cheer me.

— James Beard

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight

— M. F. K. Fisher

When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“What many bakers don't realise is that good wheat can make bad bread. The magic of bread baking is in the manipulation and the…

— Lionel Poilane

Hunger never saw bad bread.

— Benjamin Franklin

“A city that had learned to make good bread had learned to make good cake also. A city that built itself up by good…

— Rebecca West

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight... [Breadmaking is]…

— Anonymous

“No deception lasts forever. Truth rises like good bread dough.”

— Stephen P. Kiernan

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

— Henry Miller

“What makes good bread? It is a question of good flour and slow fermentation. In the old days we used to leave the dough…

— John Hillaby

“The baker’s skill in managing fermentation, not the type of oven used, is what makes good bread.”

— Chad Robertson

it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.

— Jane Smiley

“Perhaps this war will make it simpler for us to go back to some of the old ways we knew before we came over…

— M.F.K. Fisher