Hi Debra, we're so glad you've joined our baking community and are finding our blogs helpful as you develop your baking skills! In terms of other resources, our All-Purpose Baker's Companion is a great place to begin your bread baking journey. It has lots of great information on all kinds of baking techniques and best practices. When it comes to baking artisan breads, you may want to consider Ciril Hitz's Baking Artisan Bread Cookbook. Mr. Hitz is an excellent teacher and this books is quite approachable for a beginning baker. To expand on this resource, you may want to consider Jeffrey Hamelman's Bread: A Baker's Book of Techniques and Recipes. While I don't think you could say this is a book for beginning bread bakers, it has appeal for both professional bakers and home bakers because it gets to the heart of great bread baking by discussing the reasons behind the methods and techniques--it's not just a "how to," but also a "why" book, and after many years of professional baking, it's still the book I refer to most when I have bread baking dilemmas. One more resource that you might consider are the online classes from King Arthur Flour available through Craftsy. Amber Eisner, who is a baking instructor at our Baking School here in Vermont, does a great job with her Essentials of Bread Baking class, and there are lots of other great classes available through Craftsy to build upon this class, as you continue to grow as a baker. Barb

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