Breaking Bread

Name: Breaking Bread
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9780711294882
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How Baking Shaped Our World

By David Wright

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In Breaking Bread, third-generation baker, food writer, and presenter David Wright examines the universal questions about bread and baking. He explores 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,... Read More

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Breaking Bread

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Breaking Bread explores the history of bread and baking within society, examining bread's triumphs, failures and flaws via themes such as agriculture, religion, identity, conflict, and the future of bread.

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In Breaking Bread, third-generation baker, food writer, and presenter David Wright examines the universal questions about bread and baking. He explores 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, on the baking industry.

After his family bakery sadly closed its doors after seventy-five years, Wright asks if the closure of the bakery underlines the very idea that bread is a dying foodstuff. Is bread good or bad? And what does the future hold for bread?

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, our food security, our access to it, affects everything: our physical and mental well-being, the ingredients, the seeds, the very earth we grow our grains in, the water we use, and how we treat and sustain these natural resources impact the very health and future of our planet.

Chapters include:

Why Bread? - Creating, making, baking
The Wheel of Life - A loaf's cycle
Frankenloaf - Science and the perfect loaf
Sicker by the Slice - A marriage not made in heaven
Big Bread - Industrial vs artisan bakeries
The Breadline - The economics of crust
Flour Power - The politics of bread
Bloody Bread - The costs of conquest
Our Daily Bread - What the gods want
Breaking Bread - A once ropey baker looks to the future

Breaking Bread contains interviews and expert contributions from:

Olia Hercules - Food Writer
Dan Lepard - Baker and Writer
Felicity Spector - Writer and Baker
Kateryna Kalyuzhna - Baker
Brad Leone - Food Personality
Chris Cowie - Philosopher
Zara Mohammed - Religious Leader
William Kendall - Food Producer
Andy Cato/George Lamb - Wildfarmed
Daisy Terry - Dusty Knuckle
Ollie Hornsey-Pennell - Hylsten Bakery
Tim Williams - Regenerative Farmer
Matt Burgess - Chef
Martha Delacey - Teacher and Writer
Karl De Smedt - Sourdough Librarian
Vanessa Kimbell - Baker
Chris Young - Real Bread Campaign
Ben MacKinnon - Baker E5
Ben Glazer - Coombeshead Bakery
Andrew Gilespy - Fresh Flour
OJ Borg - Radio 2 DJ and Presenter
Christopher Tan - Baker and Writer
Martin Bricknell - War Studies Professor KCL
Wing Mon Cheung - Cereal Bakery

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780711294882

Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 20 March 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Aurum

Illustration: Plate section

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 750g

Pages: 264

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About the Author

David Wright is a baker, food writer and presenter from Suffolk. He has co-authored DJ BBQ's Backyard Baking (Quadrille, 2023) and writes for The Sandwich Magazine regularly. David's father and grandfather were also bakers which allows him a unique personal window into the period before mass produced bread. A graduate from King's College London where he studied English Literature with Film, David has written articles for many small publications and worked as an advertising copywriter before returning to baking. David's presenting includes compering the Literary Stage at Camp Bestival, demonstrating at festivals such as Tom Kerridge's Pub in the Park and working alongside brands such as Gozney - producing video content for their popular YouTube channel.

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