Slow Rise: A Bread-Making Adventure

by Robert Penn

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 home baking today.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0241352088
• ISBN13: 9780241352083
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Particular Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.