Being a fan of a couple of Mark Bittman's other books How to Cook Everything and How to Cook Everything 10th Anniversary Edition I pre-ordered How to Bake Everything.
I'm extremely pleased with this book because it's good for beginners to the working baker (such as myself). It has everything from the basics, ingredient breakdown, equipment uses, techniques to recipes.
The recipes are great and come with different variations to please damn near every pallet. This book is very thorough and informative. However if you like lots of pictures and graphs this book doesn't have that. It does have illustrations though. This book was well worth the wait and right now I'm using it a lot to test out the recipes.
