# Slow Rise

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- Book: [Slow Rise](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-penn/slow-rise) ([Slow Rise.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-penn/slow-rise.md))
- Authors: [Robert Penn](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-penn)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4198-855-9
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2022-07-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'Charming, important . . . a journey of discovery' Telegraph Over the course of a year, Robert Penn learns how to plant, harvest, thresh and mill his own wheat, in order to bake bread for his family. In returning to this pre-industrial practice, he tells the fascinating story of our relationship with bread: from the domestication of wheat in the Fertile Crescent at the dawn of civilization, to the rise of mass-produced loaves and the resurgence in homebaking today. Gathering knowledge and wisdom from experts around the world - farmers on the banks of the Nile, harvesters in the American Midwest and Parisian boulangers - Penn reconnects the joy of making and eating bread with a deep appreciation for the skill and patience required to cultivate its key ingredient. This book is a celebration of the millennia-old craft of breadmaking, and how it is woven into the story of humanity. 'Compelling, vivid . . . Slow Rise will be welcomed by the new bread geeks' Spectator