SLOW RISE: A Bread-Making Adventure (SIGNED COPY)

Penn, Robert

ISBN 10: 0241352088 / ISBN 13: 9780241352083

Published by Particular Books (An Imprint of Penguin Books), UK, 2021

About this Item

1st edition/1st printing. New copy. Printed & bound in UK by Clays Ltd. Both the cloth cover & jacket are perfect. The jacket is in a removable, clear protective cover. Preliminary endpapers + 227 pages. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Weight: 378 grams unpackaged. Immediate well packaged despatch. Sent with tracking within UK. Reasonable international rates.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SLOW RISE: A Bread-Making Adventure (SIGNED COPY)
• Publisher: Particular Books (An Imprint of Penguin Books), UK
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241352088
• ISBN 13: 9780241352083
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Weight: 378 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

'Charming, important . . . a journey of discovery' Telegraph

'Compelling, vivid . . . Slow Rise will be welcomed by the new bread geeks' Spectator

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.

About the Author

Robert Penn is a journalist, woodsman, lifelong cyclist and the author of several books including the Sunday Times bestseller It's All About the Bike and The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees. He lives in the Black Mountains, South Wales with his wife, three children, two spaniels, twelve bicycles and a collection of axes. He bakes his own bread in a wood-fired oven.