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Flour for man's bread : a history of milling / by John Storck and Walter Dorwin Teague ; illustrated by Harold Rydell.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Storck, John, 1896-
- Teague, Walter Dorwin, 1883-1960, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Flour.
- Flour mills--History.
- Flour mills.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgierr Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- vi pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 382 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps, facsimile ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Published by the University of Minnesota Press, [1952]
- Contents:
- Foreword / by James F. Bell
- The line we shall follow
- Diet makes the man
- The grinding of wild grains begins
- Gain cultivation begins
- Farming and milling tools appear-and bread
- The grain empires
- Milling becomes a business
- Water turns the millstones
- Man masters the winds for milling
- Man's new power resources
- Milling comes to America
- Oliver Evans invents the automatic mill
- Westward ho!
- Automatic miling and the purifier start a revolution in American milling
- Rollers and gradual reduction advance the milling revolution
- The automatic all-roller gradual-reduction mill completes the revolution
- The business side of milling gains importance
- The modern mill and its flour
- The new era of organization and research
- Looking forward.
- Notes:
- " ... this book is believed to be the first complete exposition of the growth and development of flour milling and its relation to man's progress>'--Foreword.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-372) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick Malgieri.
- Malgieri Collection copy has pocket, date slip and stamps of Waryne County Library, Detroit, Michigan.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Storck, John, 1896- Flour for man's bread.
- ISBN:
- 0816658781
- 9780816658787
- OCLC:
- 566808
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