Breaking Bread: How Baking Shaped Our World - David Wright

Bread is an essential part of our story, our health, our very being. Every civilisation has a form of bread, and how we create, make and bake it, how we sell it and buy it, and our access to it, impacts on our physical and mental well-being. More than this, the ingredients, the seeds, the earth we grow our grains in, the water we use and how we treat and sustain these natural resources, impacts on the very health and future of our planet. 

Breaking Bread examines the universal questions about bread and baking. About the people who make and shape the bread we buy and the difficulties that social and cultural change, food fads and health directives have had, and are having, and are having, on the baking industry. Now that his family bakery has closed after seventy-five years, David Wright asks if the closure underlines the very idea that bread is a dying foodstuff. Is bread good or bad? And what does the future hold for bread? 

Reviews:

'A fascinating exploration of our universal love of bread. David traces the past, present and future of bread through his personal lens as a third-generation baker' Edd Kimber, The Boy Who Bakes

'A brilliant, timely and important book full of compassion' Olia Hercules 

Publisher: Quatro Publishing PLC

ISBN: 9780711294882

Pages: 264

Weight: 750g

Dimensions: 216 x 135 x 28 mm