Slow Rise

A Bread-Making Adventure

Slow Rise
Robert Penn
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Hardback
h222 x 144mm - 240pg
25 Feb 2021 UK
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9780241352083
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Over the course of a year, Robert Penn learns how to plant, harvest, thresh and mill his own wheat, in order to bake bread for his family. In returning to this pre-industrial practice, he tells the fascinating story of our relationship with bread- from the domestication of wheat in the Fertile Crescent at the dawn of civilization, to the rise of mass-produced loaves and the resurgence in homebaking today. Gathering knowledge and wisdom from experts around the world - farmers on the banks of the Nile, harvesters in the American Midwest and Parisian boulangers - Penn reconnects the joy of making and eating bread with a deep appreciation for the skill and patience required to cultivate its key ingredient. This book is a celebration of the millennia-old craft of breadmaking, and how it is woven into the story of humanity.
People keep rediscovering the joy of bread. In truth it never went away; it was just subverted by pappy cheaper bread . . . Rob Penn celebrates what we can do to reverse this culinary serfdom -- Tim Lang * author of Feeding Britain * A wide-ranging, gloriously obsessive odyssey . . . a wonderful insight into the history, culture and sheer hard work taken to make this most fundamental of human foods -- Jenny Linford * author of The Missing Ingredient * Rob Penn' s enthusiasm for what he calls ' the most symbolically evocative foodstuff' is so infectious and persuasive . . . a pleasingly evocative tale, told with the same rich descriptions and wistful asides that Penn bakes into all of his books * Geographical * Fascinating, compelling . . . Robert Penn' s engaging account encompasses every aspect of bread, from how it fuelled entire empires to which grains he could grow on his own allotment * Evening Standard * Charming, important . . . a journey of discovery * Telegraph *
Robert Penn is a journalist, woodsman, lifelong cyclist and the author of several books including the Sunday Times bestseller It' s All About the Bike and The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees. He lives in the Black Mountains, South Wales with his wife, three children, two spaniels, twelve bicycles and a collection of axes. He bakes his own bread in a wood-fired oven.
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ISBN-13: 9780241352083
Published: 25 Feb 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Particular Books
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 222mm
Width: 144mm
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 361g
Pages: 240

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