Bread History

I was just researching bread history. I found two very good ones. One I actually wrote myself a couple of years ago for BreadInfo. What got me on the kick was a fascinating article I read about St Anthony's Fire. It is about a fungus that comes off from some very wet grain and wreaks havoc on a small French town in the 1950s.

Besides the BreadInfo history of bread, there is a very good history of bread at the History of Food blog.

In the course of my review of bread history I find that there are those who see those who engage in bread making as revolutionaries or at least radicals. I think this may just be a romantic notion. If one considers baking as a trade, and its deep connections to the past, it is hard to reconcile this. Not only that, but more often than not bakers have been the victim of radicalism, as in the French revolution when bread riots were the order du jeur.