History of Bread

Consumers, Bakers and Public Authorities since the 18th Century

AvPeter Scholliers,Peter Scholliers

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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For a long time, everything revolved around bread. Providing more than half of people’s daily calories, bread was the life-source of Europe for centuries. In the middle of 19th century, a third of household expenditure was spent on bread. Why, then, does it only account for 0.8% of expenditure and just 12% of daily calories today?In this book, Peter Scholliers delves into the history of bread to map out its defining moments and people. From the price revolution of the 1890s that led to affordable and pure white bread, to the taste revolution of the 1990s that ushered in healthy brown bread, he studies consumers, bakers and governments to explain how and why this food that once powered an entire continent has fallen by the wayside, and what this means for the modern age.From prices and consumption to legislation and technology, Scholliers shows how the history of bread has been shaped by subtle cultural shifts as well as top-down decisions from ruling bodies. From the small home baker to booming factories, he follows changes in agriculture, transport, production and policy since the 19th century to explain why bread, once the centre of everything, is not so today.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-02-08
Mått:156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt:464 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Food in Modern History: Traditions and Innovations
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350361768

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Peter Scholliers is Emeritus Professor of the History at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. An expert in the economic, social and cultural history of food in Europe since the 1750s, he is the co-editor in chief of Food & History and co-series editor of Bloomsbury’s Food in Modern History series. He has edited and authored many publications in the field including A Cultural History of Food, Writing Food History and Food Culture in Belgium.

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[This] book is an excellent addition to his oeuvre. While it is a history of bread in Belgium, it raises issues that are relevant to most European countries, and it shows how food history can be done to a high standard based upon broadly-based empirical research.

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Introduction Part I: The Consumer 1. Eating Bread 2. Types of Bread3. Prices and Purchasing power4. Acquiring Bread: Baking, Buying and Stealing 5. Calories, Kilos and Grams6. Bad bread: Fraud, Additives and Riots Part II: The Baker7. Artisanal Baking8. Technology and Hygiene 9. The Factories 10. Wages, Costs and Profits 11. Image, Status and Wealth12. Politics, Strikes and Consultations Part III: The Government 13. Grain Policy14. Price Control15. Fraud on the Track 16. School and Education 17. Committees, Councils, Institutes and Agencies Conclusion: Good Bread Glossary BibliographyAppendicesIndex