Good Bread Is Back: A Contemporary History of French Bread, the Way It Is Made, and the People Who Make It

by Steven Laurence Kaplan

Book Overview

Good Bread Is Back is a beautifully illustrated book for foodies and Francophiles alike. Widely recognized as a leading expert on French bread, the historian Steven Laurence Kaplan takes readers into aromatic Parisian bakeries as he explains how good bread began to reappear in France in the 1990s, following almost a century of decline in quality. Kaplan sets the stage for the comeback of good bread by describing how, while bread comprised the bulk...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822338335
• ISBN13: 9780822338338
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"