Breaking Bread : How Baking Shaped Our World.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bread.

Baked products industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Quarto Publishing Group UK, 2025.

Summary:

Breaking Bread explores the history of bread and baking within society, examining bread's triumphs, failures and flaws via themes such as agriculture, religion, identity, conflict, and the future of bread.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

1: Why Bread? – Creating, making, baking

2: The Wheel of Life – A loaf’s cycle

3: Frankenloaf – Science and the perfect bread

4: Sicker by the Slice – A marriage not made in heaven

5: Big Bread – Industrial vs artisan bakeries

6: The Breadline – The economics of a crust

7: Flour Power – The politics of bread

8: Bloody Bread – The costs of conquest

9: Our Daily Bread – What the gods want

10: Breaking bread – A once ropey baker looks to the future

Acknowledgements

About the Author

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ISBN:

9780711294905

0711294909

OCLC:

1511103473