Slow Rise: A Bread-Making Adventure (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780141988559)

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.

Author: Robert Penn
ISBN-10: 014198855X
ISBN-13: 9780141988559
Publisher: Penguin Group
Language: English
Published: 05/09/2023
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.20w x 0.90d