The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilisation

by Nicholas P. Money

Book Overview

From breakfast toast to evening wine, yeast is the microscopic thing that we cannot live without. We knew what yeast did as an invisible brewer and baker long before we had a clue about the existence of microorganisms. Ten thousand years ago, our ancestors abandoned bush meat and wild fruit in favor of farming animals and cultivating grain. Leaving the forests and grasslands, our desire for beer and wine produced by the fungus was a major stimulus...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198749708
• ISBN13: 9780198749707
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.