“Jensen, who owns the Smoke Signals Bakery outside of Asheville, N.C., arranges this homey, down-to-earth book by month and intersperses her recipes with short essays that offer insight into her lifestyle and baking philosophy… This cookbook will make even urban dwellers crave a night under the stars and a morning baking bread solo in a quiet, rustic kitchen.” —Publishers Weekly
“The recipes nourish body and soul, but it’s Jensen’s gorgeous, vulnerable prose, filled with heartbreak and healing, that makes this cookbook more than the sum of its parts. Jensen’s writing, like her baking, is grounded and purposeful.” —WNC Magazine
“Poetic, Personal & Profound... A Baker’s Year is an eternal and daily reminder to serve things we love in a place we love with those we love.... The name of Jensen’s bakery, Smoke Signals, is such a perfect metaphor to help us find and follow that smokey bread crumb trail of good intention and do something delicious with it....” —Chris Bianco, James Beard Award winning chef-owner of Pizzeria Bianco and author of Bianco: Pizza, Pasta and Other Foods I Like
“Tara Jensen represents an elusive ideal: the young breadmaker who structures her life around the rhythms of a wood-burning oven, not the demands of a high-volume production facility.... Her dedication shoes in each bread and pie.”—Julia Kramer on Tara Jensen for Bon Appétit
