Yes, the world does need another bread baking book, and here's why. In his introduction, Mark Bittman explains that he and Kerri Conan wrote Bittman Bread: No-Knead Whole Grain Baking for Every Day after making "a series of discoveries around whole grain bread baking that would make it more accessible to more home cooks than it had been in a century." Practically speaking, this means that by using the book's Bittman Bread Whole Wheat Starter recipe, even newbie bakers can make a sublime scallion pancake, flabbergastingly good baguettes, to-die-for cinnamon rolls and more. Bittman Bread's recipe steps are blessedly detailed and speckled with reassurances, although it's a good bet that a typical mollifying aside ("Don't obsess over this") will fall on a bread nerd's deaf ears. --Nell Beram, author and freelance writer