There are certain people in the culinary world who have become household names, like Julia Childs, Martha Stewart, and Gordon Ramsey. Thanks to the phenomenal popularity of the award-winning baking competition The Great British Bake Off, English culinary mastermind Mary Berry is rapidly becoming a household name herself.
The Great British Bake Off, an amateur baking competition first airing in the United Kingdom in 2010, is credited with reinvigorating interest in baking throughout the UK. The show is available in the United through PBS under the name The Great British Baking Show. Mary Berry, who trained at The Cordon Bleu in Paris and is a cookery writer, is one of the judges.
Known for her skill, precision, and attention to detail, Berry has written over 75 books on cookery, selling more than five million copies total thus far. One of them, the bestselling Baking Bible, was rated one of the ten best baking books by The Independent and is a great choice for novice bakers.
Other choices you can find at the Kyle Public Library include Baking with Mary Berry: Cakes, Cookies, Pies, and Pastries from the British Queen of Baking. There are also some specifically related to the show itself, including The Great British Bake Off: Big Book of Baking and The Great British Bake Off: How to Bake the Perfect Victoria Sponge and Other Baking Secrets.
So treat yourself to a trip to the Kyle Public Library to check out these and other baking books. Your sweet tooth will thank you.
