Slow Rise: A Bread-Making Adventure

By Robert Penn

An inspiring celebration of the everyday miracle of homemade bread

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 014198855X
• ISBN13: 9780141988559
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 7.5"