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Bread Matters: The State of Modern Bread and a Definitive Guide to Baking Your Own - Hardcover

Andrew Whitley

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9780007203741: Bread Matters: The State of Modern Bread and a Definitive Guide to Baking Your Own
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0007203748 ISBN 13: 9780007203741
Publisher: Fourth Estate, 2006

Synopsis

Andrew Whitley, organic baker and founder of 'The Village Bakery', reveals the deplorable state into which modern supermarket bread has fallen, and the secrets behind making good, nutritious bread at home.

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About the Author

Andrew Whitley is a leading authority on organic baking and food issues. After studying Russian at Sussex and Moscow, he joined the BBC Russian Service, where he made programmes about the emerging 'environmental crisis'. He left London in 1976 to grow his own food on an organic smallholding in Cumbria, and went on to found The Village Bakery, which has won a string of awards, culminating in the Organic Trophy. Andrew has been an occasional contributor to the Radio 4 Food Programme and has written on bread and related matters for specialist journals. He is chair of the Soil Association's Processing Standards Committee and a trustee of Voluntary Action Cumbria, the local Rural Community Council in Cumbria.

Review

`What an important book; passionate and polemical and full of truth. The chapter too on gluten-free baking is original and inspiring.'Bee Wilson, Sunday Telegraph and New Statesman `This will be the most important book on baking since the publication of Elizabeth David's "English Bread and Yeast Cookery".' Rose Prince 'Makes for interesting reading, and Whitley makes the information accessible by using easy-to-follow tables where appropriate...Throughout the book Whitley has dotted interesting historical footnotes to recipes and practical tips to recover from baking disasters. The book is comprehensive in its span of recipes and its examination of the baking process.' Caterer and Hotelkeeper 'A superb and necessary new book.' Bee Wilson, The Sunday Telegraph 'Every bit as feisty as the title implies...a good sense book that includes recipes for sour-dough and gluten-free baking.' The Independent

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Publisher
Fourth Estate
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0007203748
ISBN 13 
9780007203741
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
371
Rating
  • 4.19 out of 5 stars
    239 ratings by Goodreads