Good Bread Is Back by Steven Laurence Kaplan (Paperback Book)

Name: Good Bread Is Back by Steven Laurence Kaplan (Paperback Book)
Brand: Duke University Press

Duke University Press

In Good Bread Is Back, historian and leading French bread expert Steven Laurence Kaplan takes readers into aromatic Parisian bakeries as he explains how good bread began to reappear in France in the 1990s, following almost a century of decline in quality. Kaplan describes how, while bread comprised the bulk of the French diet during the eighteenth century, by the twentieth, per capita consumption had dropped off precipitously. This was largely due to social and economic modernization and the availability of a wider choice of foods. But part of the problem was that the bread did not taste good. In a culture in which bread is sacrosanct, bad bread was more than a gastronomical disappointment; it was a threat to France's sense of itself. By the mid-1990s bakers rallied, and bread officially\n\nGood Bread Is Back\nA Contemporary History of French Bread, the Way It Is Made, and the People Who Make It\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery;