{"product_id":"breaking-bread-by-david-wright-9780711294882","title":"Breaking Bread","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eBreaking Bread\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBread 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChapters include:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWhy Bread? - Creating, making, baking\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe Wheel of Life - A loaf's cycle\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFrankenloaf - Science and the perfect loaf\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSicker by the Slice - A marriage not made in heaven\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBig Bread - Industrial vs artisan bakeries\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe Breadline - The economics of crust\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFlour Power - The politics of bread\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBloody Bread - The costs of conquest\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOur Daily Bread - What the gods want\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBreaking Bread - A once ropey baker looks to the future\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBreaking Bread\u003c\/em\u003e contains interviews and expert contributions from:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOlia Hercules - Food Writer\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDan Lepard - Baker and Writer\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFelicity Spector - Writer and Baker\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eKateryna Kalyuzhna - Baker\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBrad Leone - Food Personality\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eChris Cowie - Philosopher\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eZara Mohammed - Religious Leader\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWilliam Kendall - Food Producer\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAndy Cato\/George Lamb - Wildfarmed\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDaisy Terry - Dusty Knuckle\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOllie Hornsey-Pennell - Hylsten Bakery\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eTim Williams - Regenerative Farmer\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMatt Burgess - Chef\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMartha Delacey - Teacher and Writer\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eKarl De Smedt - Sourdough Librarian\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eVanessa Kimbell - Baker\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eChris Young - Real Bread Campaign\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBen MacKinnon - Baker E5\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBen Glazer - Coombeshead Bakery\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAndrew Gilespy - Fresh Flour\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOJ Borg - Radio 2 DJ and Presenter\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eChristopher Tan - Baker and Writer\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMartin Bricknell - War Studies Professor KCL\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWing Mon Cheung - Cereal Bakery\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46997956788460,"sku":"9780711294882","price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6335433482441.jpg?v=1763200566","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/breaking-bread-by-david-wright-9780711294882","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}