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Bread Matters: Why and How to Make Your Own
Andrew Whitley
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Description for Bread Matters: Why and How to Make Your Own
Paperback. Andrew Whitley, organic baker and founder of The Village Bakery, reveals the deplorable state into which mass produced bread has fallen, and the secrets behind making good, nutritious bread at home. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: WBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 189 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1260.
Andrew Whitley, organic baker and founder of The Village Bakery, reveals the deplorable state into which mass produced bread has fallen, and the secrets behind making good, nutritious bread at home. All is not well in British baking. Commercial bread is laced with additives to make it look good and stay soft. It uses varieties of wheat that have been bred for high yield and baking performance with little concern for human nutrition. To rush it through the bakery at the lowest possible cost, it's ... Read more
Andrew Whitley, organic baker and founder of The Village Bakery, reveals the deplorable state into which mass produced bread has fallen, and the secrets behind making good, nutritious bread at home. All is not well in British baking. Commercial bread is laced with additives to make it look good and stay soft. It uses varieties of wheat that have been bred for high yield and baking performance with little concern for human nutrition. To rush it through the bakery at the lowest possible cost, it's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
1260g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007298495
SKU
V9780007298495
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-97
About Andrew Whitley
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Bread Matters: Why and How to Make Your Own
`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 ... Read more