Modern wheat was bred to feed the largest possible number of people. Heritage wheat was bred to feed the people who lived next to it.
The roller mill did not just produce a different flour. It produced a different agricultural economy.
Salt does not season bread. It governs it.
Real bread stales. Industrial bread doesn’t, because there is nothing alive in it to die.
White flour is wheat with most of itself removed, then partially re-added in the laboratory. The result is not the same as wheat.
The word artisan now appears on the loaves it once distinguished bread from.
Uniformity is the signature of a machine. Variation is the signature of a hand.
Time is the only ingredient in bread that cannot be bought. It can only be given
Real bread is not a luxury. It is the older form of a food that has been with humans since before agriculture itself.
