How do I love Red Truck Bakery Cookbook: Gold-Standard Recipes from America's Favorite Rural Bakery by Brian Noyes, let me count the ways. The stunning photography, recipes that are exciting and new, and the book opens with the author's tale of how John Wayne once made him a tuna sandwich. Hot damn, it doesn't get much better than that. 

This time of year delivers a flurry of books to my doorstep - many are review copies and some are purchased. It's been a whirlwind of work for the last six weeks, more so than usual. So oft times - I open the packages, pile them up and turn to other pressing work deadlines. Something about Red Truck Bakery commanded my attention. I stopped work, took the book to the couch and started reading. I was smitten.

This book has all the charm one would expect from a Virginia bakery with recipes that include Skillet cornbread with pimento cheese frosting, Bourbon sarsaparilla cake with cherries and almonds, and Appalachian pie with ramps and morels. The headnotes make you feel that the author is in the kitchen beside you giving advice on the dishes. 

Brian saw my social media posts and reached out to me to send me some of his products from the bakery. I told him that it wasn't necessary that I was in love with his book and wanted to share how wonderful it was. A few days later two boxes arrived with Bourbon cake (to die for with hints of ginger, lemon and orange), the gluten-free Almond cake (disappeared in less than 24 hours the recipe is in the book), Red Truck Bakery granola (which we all loved), Harvest wheat bread (Andrew demanded a piece with soup the day the boxes arrived and it was incredible toasted with a little peanut butter for breakfast the next day) and last but not least, their Bulldog coffee. 

 

I am a confident baker and cook, and I plan to bake a great deal from this book, but come December I'm treating myself to Red Truck Bakery for my birthday. The orange cake and moonshine cake are calling my name. I've made the almond cake once for a staff meeting and will be making it again this week. So good! Let me tell you how much I love this book, I ordered an autographed copy even though I already had a copy. Brian is touring in support of this title, see his events on our calendar.

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Special thanks to Clarkson Potter for providing the materials for our EYBD Preview as well as three copies of this title in our giveaway below. Special thanks to Brian and Red Truck Bakery for their extraordinary kindness.  

 

The publisher is offering three copies of this book to EYB Members in the US. One of the entry options is to answer the following question in the comments section of this blog post.

Which recipe in the index would you try first?

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"Reprinted from Red Truck Bakery Cookbook. Copyright © 2018 by Brian Noyes. Photographs copyright © 2018 by Andrew Thomas Lee. Published by Clarkson Potter, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC."