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Good bread is back : a contemporary history of French bread, the way it is made, and the people who make it / Steven Laurence Kaplan ; translated by Catherine Porter.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 368 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0822338335
  • 9780822338338
Uniform titles:
  • Retour du bon pain. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 641.8150944 22
LOC classification:
  • TX769 .K28713 2006
Contents:
1. Good bread : practices and discourses -- 2. Bread : the double crisis -- 3. White bread : a western story -- 4. The enemy -- 5. Bakeries and the state -- 6. Bound to quarrel, condemned to get along : millers and bakers -- 7. Rue Monge rivals and other mavericks.
Review: "Good bread is back is an illustrated book for foodies and Francophiles alike. Widely recognized as a leading expert on French bread, the historian Steven Laurence Kaplan takes readers into aromatic Parisian bakeries as he explains how good bread began to reappear in France in the 1990s, following almost a century of decline in quality."--BOOK JACKET.
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Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-357) and index.

1. Good bread : practices and discourses -- 2. Bread : the double crisis -- 3. White bread : a western story -- 4. The enemy -- 5. Bakeries and the state -- 6. Bound to quarrel, condemned to get along : millers and bakers -- 7. Rue Monge rivals and other mavericks.

"Good bread is back is an illustrated book for foodies and Francophiles alike. Widely recognized as a leading expert on French bread, the historian Steven Laurence Kaplan takes readers into aromatic Parisian bakeries as he explains how good bread began to reappear in France in the 1990s, following almost a century of decline in quality."--BOOK JACKET.

Translated from the French.

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