Slow rise : a bread-making adventure
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Slow rise : a bread-making adventure
（Penguin books, . Penguin travel/history）
Penguin, 2022, c2021
- : [pbk.]
Available at 1 libraries
Note
Originally published: Particular Books, 2021
Bibliography: p. 223-[224]
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Description
'Charming, important . . . a journey of discovery' Telegraph
Over the course of a year, Robert Penn learns how to plant, harvest, thresh and mill his own wheat, in order to bake bread for his family. In returning to this pre-industrial practice, he tells the fascinating story of our relationship with bread: from the domestication of wheat in the Fertile Crescent at the dawn of civilization, to the rise of mass-produced loaves and the resurgence in homebaking today.
Gathering knowledge and wisdom from experts around the world - farmers on the banks of the Nile, harvesters in the American Midwest and Parisian boulangers - Penn reconnects the joy of making and eating bread with a deep appreciation for the skill and patience required to cultivate its key ingredient. This book is a celebration of the millennia-old craft of breadmaking, and how it is woven into the story of humanity.
'Compelling, vivid . . . Slow Rise will be welcomed by the new bread geeks' Spectator
by "Nielsen BookData"