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“I began to dream of a binding machine. I dreamed of it at night and I dreamed of it during the day.”

Sometimes people want bread more than they want democracy. Some governments can’t deliver either.

Eight wheat seeds of silver gets you 5 pounds 10 ounces of bread.

Nathan Myhrvold is right: “The best bread the world has ever had is being made today.”

Bakers who grind their own grain are all utterly in love with the flour they get. I’m jealous.

If you are eating reasonably well, it probably doesn’t matter which you choose. You can get great white bread, and you can get awful brown bread.

It needn’t actually taste sour. In fact, except in a few countries, it need not even make use of a natural leaven.

All hail Adolf Ignaz Mautner von Markhof. And also Pope Leo IX, Michael Cerularius the Patriarch and assorted wise rabbis and scholars.

There’s a fundamental tension between the time it takes to make a loaf of bread and the value of the final product.

Perhaps there’s more to flour fermentation than the bubbles that lighten the loaf.