Loaves of Fun: A History of Bread with Activities and Recipes from Around the World
Acknowledgments Thanks to Tom and Mary McMakin and the whole Great Harvest Bakery family Your breads are an inspiration to me and fortunately to Amy Teschner who thought of this book and saw it through its beginning stages Thanks to Olivia Nuccio who modeled for everything from kneading hands to the eating mummy This book is lovingly dedicated to my own little tester and helper Mary Paige Harbison ATHAE
INTRODUCTION This book is about the history of bread But what you might not know is that the history of bread is also the history of civilization Reading this book will be like taking a trip through history and throughout the world You'll learn how important bread has been in the making and breaking of civilizations both ancient and mod ern Virtually every culture in history has had its own approach to eating from the Chinese way of eating with chopsticks and the Moroccan way of eating with the left hand to the European invention of utensils knives forks and spoons The favorite foods of different cultures also vary greatly in Greece squid is popular in India beef is forbidden in France frogs legs and snails are consid ered delicious and in Italy pasta is served nearly every night The one thing that's common to virtually every culture in every period of history is that all of them have or have had some kind of bread with nearly every meal But the kinds of bread vary as greatly as the cultures themselves You can see evidence of this in the French baguette the Jewish challah the Indian chapati and the Middle Eastern pita to name just a
Loaves of Fun: A History of Bread with Activities and Recipes from Around the World
Kids can explore the globe with more than 30 exciting recipes and activities about the history of bread.
