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
- Author:
- Kaplan, Steven L.
- Uniform Title:
- Retour du Bon Pain. English
- Published:
- Durham : Duke University Press, [2006]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2006
- Physical Description:
- 368 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- 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.
- Summary:
- "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.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 0822338335 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822338338 (cloth : alk. paper) - Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-357) and index.
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