Yeast Technology

by Gerald Reed

Book Overview

Yeasts are the active agents responsible for three of our most important foods - bread, wine, and beer - and for the almost universally used mind/ personality-altering drug, ethanol. Anthropologists have suggested that it was the production of ethanol that motivated primitive people to settle down and become farmers. The Earth is thought to be about 4. 5 billion years old. Fossil microorganisms have been found in Earth rock 3. 3 to 3. 5 billion years...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9401197733
• ISBN13: 9789401197731
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 454 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"