Our cookbook of the week is Babette’s Bread by Babette Kourelos, a Saint-Lazare, Que.-based artisan baker and baking instructor.

Jump to the recipes: old-fashioned cottage loaf with spelt, koulouria (Greek sesame bread rings) and epi baguette.

Though Babette Kourelos’s parents named her after the French chef in the Danish story and film Babette’s Feast, she found a roundabout route to professional kitchens. Her baking career began with a rustic cottage loaf, one small round of dough sitting on top of a larger one.