Slow Rise

A tale of rediscovery and a celebration of the everyday miracle of homemade bread

Over the course of a year, Robert Penn learns how to plant, harvest, thresh and mill his own wheat, in order to bake bread for his family. In returning to this pre-industrial practice, he tells the fascinating story of our relationship with bread: from the domestication of wheat in the Fertile Crescent at the dawn of civilization, to the rise of mass-produced loaves and the resurgence in homebaking today.

Gathering knowledge and wisdom from experts around the world - farmers on the banks of the Nile, harvesters in the American Midwest and Parisian boulangers - Penn reconnects the joy of making and eating bread with a deep appreciation for the skill and patience required to cultivate its key ingredient. This book is a celebration of the millennia-old craft of breadmaking, and how it is woven into the story of humanity.

O poveste despre redescoperire si o sarbatoare a miracolului de zi cu zi al painii de casa Pe parcursul unui an, Robert Penn invata cum sa planteze, sa culeaga, sa-si treiere si sa mori propriul grau, pentru a coace paine pentru familia sa. Revenind la aceasta practica preindustriala, el spune povestea fascinanta a relatiei noastre cu painea: de la domesticirea graului in Semiluna Fertila, in zorii civilizatiei, pana la ascensiunea painilor produse in masa si renasterea in coacerea acasa de astazi. Adunand cunostinte si intelepciune de la experti din intreaga lume - fermieri de pe malul Nilului, recoltatori din Vestul Mijlociu american si boulangeri parizieni - Penn reconecteaza bucuria de a face si a manca paine cu o profunda apreciere pentru indemanarea si rabdarea necesare pentru a-i cultiva cheia. ingredient.