On Food and Cooking

Special Kinds of Loaf Breads: Sourdough, Rye, Sweet, Gluten-Free Other Breads: Flatbreads, Bagels, Steamed Breads, Q ...

Flaky Pastries: American Pie Pastry Laminated Pastries: Puff Pastry, Pâte Feuilleté Sheet Pastries: Phyll ...

sustenance. It also represents a truly remarkable discovery, a lively pole on which the young human imagina ...

mainstays of human life. So it was bread that became synonymous with food itself in the lands from wes ...

suggests the importance to early peoples of dough’s malleability, its clay-like capacity to be shaped by the ...

dough, the ovens that bake the loaves, the people who make the bread and eat it. One consistent theme from ...

Prehistoric Times Two prehistoric discoveries laid the foundation for the transformation of grains into breads and noo ...

maize. Such breads were probably first cooked alongside an open fire, then on a griddle stone, and some ...

Meanwhile grinding equipment progressed from the mortar and pestle to two flat stones and then, around 800 BC ...

of Aristotle and author of the Gastronomia, a compendious account of ancient Mediterranean eating whose title ga ...

can be devoted to the varieties of bakers’ goods. The Middle Ages During the European Middle Ages, bakers were s ...

Four stages in the evolution of machines for grinding grain. Clockwise from upper left: The saddlestone a ...

from this time. Domestic recipes for bread begin to appear in cookbooks for the emerging middle class, and a ...

How wasteful, then, and indeed, how shameful, for a labourer’s wife to go to the baker’s shop... Give me, for ...

use of “pearlash,” a refined version of potash, which was made by soaking the ash produced when plant materials ...

French, Italian, and Spanish, farine and farina, come from the Latin for a kind of grain (far), the ...

of bread making. Today very little bread is made in the home, and with the exception of countries with ...

The Return of Flavor and Texture Europeans and North Americans began to eat significantly more bread in ...

freshly made traditional breads, and this fact has caught the attention of industrial producers. They have rece ...

ounces butter, and two large spoons of finely powdered coriander seed, wet with above; make r ...