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Flour Water Yeast Salt
FlourA book about bread, with examples from all over the world, and a stylized illustration and a brief description of each. Bread is one of the earliest prepared foods, dating from at least 9000 BCE. It probably resulted from the fermentation of cereal pastes by naturally occurring wild yeasts. In wheat-based cultures, bread has become a metaphor for food in general, monetary value, and the necessities of life.
Bread dough is also an irresistible sculptural medium, and bread shapes can be distinctive to countries, states, villages, and individual bakers all over the world. This little book contains a tiny number of the almost infinitely varied types and shapes that the combination of four simple ingredients can have.
Bound in a yellow and cream striped paper, with decorative endpapers, and a paper title pasted on the front
Also available in microminiature: Flour Water Yeast Salt
This product was added to our catalog January 7, 2010
$24.00