(Ebook) Traditional European Breads: An Illustrative Compendium of Ancestral Knowledge and Cultural Heritage by Marco Garcia-Vaquero (Editor), Kristian Pastor (Editor), Gul Ebru Orhun (Editor), Anna McElhatton (Editor), João Miguel F. Rocha (Editor) ISBN 9783031233517, 3031233514

(Ebook) Traditional European Breads: An Illustrative Compendium of Ancestral Knowledge and Cultural Heritage by Marco Garcia-Vaquero (Editor), Kristian Pastor (Editor), Gul Ebru Orhun (Editor), Anna McElhatton (Editor), João Miguel F. Rocha (Editor) ISBN 9783031233517, 3031233514

Bread is one of the most widely consumed staple foods in the world and one of the oldest forms of processed foods, with evidences of bread-like food remains and fermentation utensils developed by our ancestors dating back to the Neolithic era in multiple locations around the world, including Europe and Asia, and the oldest evidences of bread production discovered dating back 4000 years before this Neolithic period.The readers of this book will discover the history and evolution of bread, a current and ancestral staple food product that developed alongside the human race, resulting in a wide variety and range of interesting traditions and ways of bread-making that were preserved and passed on through generations in different countries and that led to the current wide variety of clearly distinctive products locally produced in different regions in Europe. Intriguing associations and beliefs associated with the process of bread-making and consumption, including myths, religious rituals and oral traditions in different regions, mix in this book with scientific knowledge on the changes occurring in flour for the creation of different bread products. A book in which tradition mixes with scientific knowledge and ancestral know-how that is passed on from generations and still pervades in different regions, coming to the present to enrich our knowledge and understand the present and future direction of this food product that will forever be linked and continue to evolve together with the humankind.I hope the science and stories curated in this book can help to preserve and keep these traditions, myths, legends and products alive, so future generations can discover, enjoy and benefit from this ancestral knowledge.