PETER REINHART

Master Breadmaker and Author Peter Reinhart talks about his revolutionary new method of bread making.

Peter Reinhart is the founder of the award-winning Brother Juniper's Bakery in Santa Rosa, California. He is now a full-time faculty member in the International Baking and Pastry Institute at Johnson and Wales University in Charlotte, North Carolina, having taught at the university’s Providence campus the previous four years. For the five years prior to teaching at Johnson and Wales, Peter was a full time instructor at the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco.

His seventh book, Peter Reinhart’s Whole Grain Bread: New Techniques, Extraordinary Flavor, was just released in September 2007.

He is also the author of American Pie: My Search for the Perfect Pizza (2003); The Bread Baker’s Apprentice (2001, winner of both the James Beard and IACP Cook Book of the Year awards as well as the International Gourmand Award for Best Baking Book in the World); Bread Upon The Waters: A Pilgrimage Toward Self Discovery and Spiritual Truth (Perseus Books, 2000); Crust and Crumb: Master Formulas For Serious Bread Bakers (Ten Speed Press, 1998); Sacramental Magic In a Small Town Cafe: Recipes and Stories From Brother Juniper's Cafe (1994); and Brother Juniper's Bread Book: Slow Rise As Method and Metaphor (1991, both from Addison Wesley).

Peter has also developed a line of frozen gourmet pizzas, calzones, toaster snacks, and bagels for Amy's Kitchen, the nation's largest producer of organic, vegetarian frozen entrees.

Peter’s food work initially was a direct ministry outreach that unexpectedly developed into a full-fledged culinary and teaching career. As both an educator and lay minister/theologian, Peter’s future is focused on education, both secular and spiritual. His book, Bread Upon the Waters: A Pilgrimage Toward Self Discovery and Spiritual Truth, is the first in what he anticipates as a series of books exploring the connection between spirituality, values, meaningfulness, and effectiveness in one’s life mission.