Category: Our Daily Bread

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.

A small bakery in Toronto, Canada, became a behemoth that bestrides global bread and beyond. Phew!

St Anthony Falls powered the sawmills that created the financial capital that laid the foundations for General Mills.