The new bread basket : how the new crop of grain growers, plant breeders, millers, maltsters, bakers, brewers, and local food activists are redefining our daily loaf / Amy Halloran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halloran, Amy, author.

Contributor:

James Samuel Blank Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bread.

Bread--History.

History.

Grain.

Grain--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

236 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

How the new crop of grain growers, plant breeders, millers, maltsters, bakers, brewers, and local food activists are redefining our daily loaf

Place of Publication:

White River Junction, Vermont : Chelsea Green Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

The New Bread Basket tells the story of how a radical band of grain pioneers-farmers, millers, bakers, brewers, and maltsters-are reinventing community grain systems and reintroducing grams as a viable local food crop. Today's commodity grain industry has led many Americans to avoid eating gluten and carbohydrates altogether. Yet our long history with grains suggests that changes in farming and processing could be the real reason wheat has become suspect in popular nutrition. In The New Bread Basket, Amy Halloran introduces readers to a wide range of important projects developing outside of the traditional wheat belt that are empowering communities to turn away from factory bread and beer and revitalize local grain production in a way that benefits people, local businesses, and the environment. Book jacket.

Contents:

The farmer, the miller, and the baker

Public works

People and plants

Know your flour

Bread builds community

Eat the landscape

Everyday revolutions

Transformation

The bread lab

Seeding new grass

Valley malt

Beer grows grains

The next bread.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Samuel Blank Fund.

ISBN:

1603585672

9781603585675

9781603585682

1603585680

OCLC:

905222137

Publisher Number:

99963880693