David Wright

Breaking Bread (eBook, ePUB)

How Baking Shaped Our World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Aurum
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780711294905
• Artikelnr.: 72295607

Autorenporträt

David Wright is a baker, food writer and presenter from Suffolk. He has co-authored DJ BBQ's Backyard Baking (Quadrille, 2023) and writes for The Sandwich Magazine regularly. David's father and grandfather were also bakers which allows him a unique personal window into the period before mass produced bread. A graduate from King's College London where he studied English Literature with Film, David has written articles for many small publications and worked as an advertising copywriter before returning to baking. David's presenting includes compering the Literary Stage at Camp Bestival, demonstrating at festivals such as Tom Kerridge's Pub in the Park and working alongside brands such as Gozney - producing video content for their popular YouTube channel.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Why Bread? – Creating, making, baking
2: The Wheel of Life – A loaf ’s cycle
3: Frankenloaf – Science and the perfect loaf
4: Sicker by the Slice – A marriage not made in heaven
5: Big Bread – Industrial vs artisan bakeries
6: The Breadline – The economics of 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