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No Carb Left Behind.

Katie

April 6, 2010

Seriously: the crispiest, airiest, most flavorful loaf I’ve ever made, and the first time I didn’t come away secretly thinking to myself, “Man…I should have just gone to the bakery.” You have to plan for it, but other than that it takes zero effort. Really. NO KNEAD. Yes delicious.

Full disclosure: putting my enamel Dutch oven into the actual oven at such a high temperature made it kind of darken around the bottom. But I think that makes me seem badass and legit, which , coincidentally, is my goal in the kitchen AND in life. So…everybody wins!

In conclusion: I am so done with all other bread recipes. Even (gasp) Ina’s. I KNOW RIGHT.

Love Junkie.

Katie Cotugno is the New York Times bestselling author of eight messy, complicated feminist YA love stories, as well as the adult novels Birds of California and Meet the Benedettos. She is also the co-author, with Candace Bushnell, of Rules for Being a Girl. Her books have been honored by the Junior Library Guild, the Bank Street Children’s Book Committee, and the Kentucky Association of School Librarians, among others, and translated into more than fifteen languages. Katie is a Pushcart Prize nominee whose work has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Mississippi Review, and Argestes, as well as many other literary magazines. She studied Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College and received her MFA in Fiction at Lesley University. She lives in Boston with her family.