Peter Mayle's "Confessions of a French Baker," is a slim, cute little book that spans 89 pages and with its compact pages, extremely wide margins, and larger typeface can easily be read from cover to cover within 10 - 15 pages (and no, i'm not exaggerating).While the title of this book suggests deep insight into the secret methodology of a world-class French bakery what Mayle provides is an extremely limited and basic examination of Gerard Auzet's boulangerie - Chet Auzet. While this book does provide a handful of bread recipes and suggested wine pairings for particular style of loaves - the actual narrative content could easily be crammed into a pamphlet.This book will certainly appeal to fans of Mayle as well as Francophiles or bread/bakery afficionados and due to its elegant design would be well suited as a gift item as well. If you are puchasing for yourself in hopes of gaining further insight into baking technique you may be somewhat disappointed however.