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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780601903321

Autore

Kaplan Steven L

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, c2006

ISBN

0-8223-5924-3

9786613022523

1-283-02252-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (381 p.)

Collana

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Disciplina

641.8/150944

Soggetti

Bread - France

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translated from the French.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-357) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

This beautifully illustrated book, written by a leading expert on French bread, describes the resurgence of high-quality, artisanal bread in France over the past two decades.