Slow Rise : A Bread-Making Adventure

Author: Penn, Robert

Food & society

Published on 7 July 2022 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 240 pages
128 x 198 x 21 | 184g

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

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