Bread is Broken
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Bread is Broken
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#2Interesting article that made me incredibly hungry for my grandmother's bread.
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#3I buy Khorasan whole kernels from a local farm and hand mill it as needed into my own flour to make east african chapatis everyday, never will go back to zero nutrient, flavorless bleached flour in supermarkets. Takes me about 30mins, I roll it in an omlette they call a 'rolex' in Africa for breakfast and sometimes make more for dinner/curries. The rolex fills me all day no carb sugar burnout like I used to get with store bought bread.
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#4I used to get bread from a old school French baker in downtown Dallas of all places. I don't know where he gets his wheat (he mills it himself) but the bread was like nothing I've ever eaten. One time I ate half a loaf for dinner with nothing on it at all, it's so tasty.
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#5As an aside, consumption of bread is strongly correlated with tooth decay. Whole wheat has only a slightly smaller correlation.
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#6I used to get bread from a old school French baker in downtown Dallas of all places. I don't know where he gets his wheat (he mills it himself) but the bread was like nothing I've ever eaten. One time I ate half a loaf for dinner with nothing on it at all, it's so tasty.
You need to tell us the place!
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#7As an aside, consumption of bread is strongly correlated with tooth decay. Whole wheat has only a slightly smaller correlation.
I trust your word on this iamsohungry.
Seriously though, do you know how much is safe?
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#8As an aside, consumption of bread is strongly correlated with tooth decay. Whole wheat has only a slightly smaller correlation.
Can't you just brush your teeth afterwards?
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#9Ironically, sliced bread is the worst.
Normal bread can get stale, dry and hard. But packaged sliced bread is much less perishable. I've seen sliced bread having the same texture and taste after a whole week of lying on a kitchen countertop. And when you read the ingredients on its packaging, you begin to understand why, as sliced bread is subject to the techniques of processed foods such as the addition of preservatives, antioxidants, stabilizers, anti-caking agents, or packaging gases, in addition to that bread being bleached, blanched, stripped of nutrients and with added sugar to make it taste better and because high-fructose corn syrup is so cheap, so why not. In addition sliced bread is subject to every health-related fad in existence. Low carb bread? Sure. Bread with Omega-3? Of course.
Basically the packaged substance in super-markets is anything but bread, then we wonder why our meals don't satisfy us and why we get fat.
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#10I used to get bread from a old school French baker in downtown Dallas of all places. I don't know where he gets his wheat (he mills it himself) but the bread was like nothing I've ever eaten. One time I ate half a loaf for dinner with nothing on it at all, it's so tasty.
Not to discount what you're saying as I'm sure the bread was very good, but I've been thinking about whether knowing a bit more about the process and story behind food products helps enhance the experience.
So in this case, knowing that he mills it himself and that he seems to use old school methods, in addition to just baking great bread is a recipe for a better bread experience than that of simply eating great bread without knowing the story.