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My Bread: The Revolutionary No-Work, No-Knead Method
By Jim Lahey, Ron Manville, Mark Luinenburg, Rick Flaste
W.W. Norton & Co. - 2009
After Jim Lahey's no-knead bread recipe went viral, thanks to Mark Bittman and The New York Times, he wrote this cookbook around the recipe. The bread recipe itself is very good, and along with his no-knead pizza dough recipe, are probably the only ones you need for making batch after batch of tasty bread at home.
The remainder of the recipes are really just variations on the theme, some simple but very good changes (Cheese Bread), and others more of a flop (Focaccia). Beyond that, Lahey offers some recipes for sandwiches, pizza toppings and what to do with stale bread, but there isn't much new in these chapters.
All in all, I'd say this book is only worth it if you want an illustrated guide to exactly how to make the no-knead bread and pizza. Otherwise, you can find variations of these recipes for free all over the web, and you probably don't need to buy the book.