In this blog post from Killarneyvale Bakery, here are a few words on the subject of bread as well as a few laughs.
Bread from the Upper Paleolithic to Today
Archeobotanical evidence suggests that bread was made in the Fertile Crescent ten thousand years before the invention of agriculture.
For thousands of years it was a food, but not the food. Agriculture made bread an agent of change.
Bread built the first Fertile Crescent cities and the civilizations of which we are heir. ᔥ William Rubel speaks on “Song of the Wheat: The History of Bread …
More Reading
- ↬ 100 Great Breads: Bread #3 – Pain de Campagne | Owen Rees
- ↬ 100 Great Breads: Bread #1 – White Bread | Owen Rees
- ↬ 100 Great Breads: Bread #2 – Crusty Cob | Owen Rees
The Bread Challenge
Just a bit of bread fun . . .
Baguette-me-nots
Started by Tim Bierbaum and John Milhiser from comedy group Serious Lunch, Baguette-Me-Nots, which replaces objects with baguettes in pictures, is of course perfectly comprehensible.
It can be surreal, it can be banal, it can be mindbending, but it yeast what it yeast. Never judge bread. ᔥ Baguette-me-nots
More Reading
- ↬ A New Kind of Culinary Treasure in Toronto
- ↬ Best places to stay in Cornwall
- ↬ What to eat (and drink!) in Madrid
- ↬ Best things to do in May 2013
A Short Bread History
Pollan lectures about the history of cooking. Boiling, bread baking, fermenting. Interesting, not very political. #michaelpollan
— JorisLohman (Joris Lohman) (@JorisLohman) Mon Jun 3 2013
The History of Irish Soda Bread http://t.co/9Nn6kbjp3t (via @Stairnahireann) #edchatie #history
— levdavidovic (Fintan O’Mahony) (@levdavidovic) Mon Jun 3 2013
This Saturday at 10:30am: Talk on the history of bread with William Rubel at the Central Library! http://t.co/w77oW4AXxi
— CHSoCal (Culinary Historians) (@CHSoCal) Mon Jun 3 2013
Related articles
Leave a Reply