Product Details
Author: Peter Scholliers
Format: Paperback
Pages: 296
Language: English
Dimensions: 234 mm (H) × 156 mm (W) × 16 mm (Thickness)
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Bread, which was at the center of life in Europe for centuries, met more than half of people's daily calorie needs
Why is it that in the middle of the 19th century, a third of household expenditure was devoted only to bread, today this rate is only 0
8%?
In this book, Peter Scholliers examines the historical transformation of bread
In the process from the "white bread revolution" of the 1890s to the "whole grain, healthy bread" understanding of the 1990s; It covers every step in detail, from consumers to bakers, from government policies to production technologies
Under many headings such as prices, consumption habits, laws, transportation and agriculture, this story, ranging from small home bakeries to huge factories, questions how bread, once the source of life for the entire continent, fell behind and what this means in today's world
Bread is an important work that traces not only the social, economic and cultural evolution of a food, but also a civilization
