PSB: Boston Edition - Christopher Kimball, author of Milk Street Bakes

Event Description

Porter Square Books is thrilled to welcome Christopher Kimball for a special presentation of his latest cookbook Milk Street Bakes! This event will take place on Thursday, January 23 at 6pm at PSB: Boston Edition (50 Liberty Drive, Boston, MA 02210).

ABOUT MILK STREET BAKES

Turn your kitchen into the world's best bakery with this "comprehensive [and] extraordinarily useful" collection of 200 sweet and savory baking recipes from the James Beard Award-winning team at Milk Street (Booklist, starred review)

The American baking repertoire may be unparalleled in our claim to pies, biscuits, and cakes. But step off a plane in London, Mexico City, Istanbul, or Paris, and you realize how much more there we can learn about the art of simple, delicious baked goods.

We found a simple Spanish almond cake that uses no wheat flour. Loaf cakes that balance the sugar with slightly-bitter rye. Super-creamy Basque cheesecake that requires no water bath. Mexican sweet corn cake made in a blender. Or Catalan biscotti, sticky chocolate cake from Sweden, and crispy spinach and cheese borek from Türkiye.

We also include forgotten American recipes such as maple-glazed hermits and new classics such as peanut butter banana cream pie. And we go beyond sweets to include yeasted breads, savory tarts, pizzas, and flatbreads (some made in a skillet in minutes).

Most of these recipes are easier than you’d think, from beer pretzels to Danish dream cake. But in baking, the little things count—so Milk Street is here to help you avoid pitfalls with recipes that you can count on.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Christopher Kimball is the founder of Milk Street, a food media company dedicated to traveling the world to meet home cooks who teach us bolder, easier ways to cook at home. Milk Street produces the bimonthly Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Magazine, as well as Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio, a weekly public radio show and podcast heard on over 230 stations nationwide. Kimball is also host of public television’s Emmy award-winning Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television. Milk Street also offers online and in-person culinary education, including nonprofit work with Big Brothers Big Sisters and Boys & Girls Clubs, and publishes cookbooks including Milk Street: Tuesday Nights, a James Beard award winner for Best General Cookbook. Milk Street’s online store sources spices and ingredients from around the world as well as kitchen tools and cookware. Chris is also the author of Fannie’s Last Supper, The Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook, The Cook’s Bible, The Dessert Bible, The Kitchen Detective, and Dear Charlie.