In Defence of Food

In Defence of Food
Author: Michael Pollan
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2008-01-31
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0141908513

'A must-read ... satisfying, rich ... loaded with flavour' Sunday Telegraph This book is a celebration of food. By food, Michael Pollan means real, proper, simple food - not the kind that comes in a packet, or has lists of unpronounceable ingredients, or that makes nutritional claims about how healthy it is. More like the kind of food your great-grandmother would recognize. In Defence of Food is a simple invitation to junk the science, ditch the diet and instead rediscover the joys of eating well. By following a few pieces of advice (Eat at a table - a desk doesn't count. Don't buy food where you'd buy your petrol!), you will enrich your life and your palate, and enlarge your sense of what it means to be healthy and happy. It's time to fall in love with food again. For the past twenty years, Michael Pollan has been writing about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: food, agriculture, gardens, drugs, and architecture. His most recent book, about the ethics and ecology of eating, is The Omnivore's Dilemma, named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. He is also the author of The Botany of Desire, A Place of My Own and Second Nature.

Wheat Flour Milling

Wheat Flour Milling
Author: Elieser S. Posner
Publisher: Amer Assn of Cereal Chemists
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2005
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9781891127403

Updated for the first time in 7 years, Wheat Flour Milling, 2nd Edition brings together essential information about new and innovative approaches to the practice of wheat flour milling. Like the popular first edition, it includes in-depth coverage of current methods, technology, procedures, and equipment used in wheat flour milling, presenting specific ways to streamline mill operations and maximize flour quality while offering a general overview of industry practices. Explaining all machinery and phases of the milling process, including storing and blending, cleaning and conditioning, grinding, sieving, and purifying, this extensive resource provides answers to all your technical questions. Tables of specific mill engineering data provide application for mill design, while chemistry and analytical information and improved laboratory techniques allow for greater accuracy in mill operation. Explanations on the theory of the process provide knowledge useful to all involved in milling or the end product.The second edition is thoroughly updated and expanded to reflect the changes that have occurred since the first edition was published and to provide more detailed information. For example, durum wheat and soft wheat have separate chapters for a more detailed focus on specific characteristics. In addition, new topics such as Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP), International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and Mill Management are covered. The glossary has also been expanded for easy access and understanding of milling terms. Practical conversion factors, the detailed index, and quick web references to all subjects related to wheat flour milling make finding the information you need quick and easy.Millers, bakers, product manufacturers, grain scientists, quality assurance professionals, government agencies, wheat growers, wheat buyers, mill designers, educators, and students are sure to find this a useful, in-depth resource.

Mill City

Mill City
Author: Minnesota Historical Society
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2003-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780873514590

Minneapolis rose in the 1850s along the shore of the Mississippi River's only waterfall and developed into a city driven by its mills. St. Anthony Falls and the riverfront were soon home to numerous mills which together produced enough flour to earn Minneaplis the nickname "Mill City".

Flour for Man's Bread

Flour for Man's Bread
Author: John Storck
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1952
Genre: History
ISBN:

Flour for Man's Bread was first published in 1952. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. From prehistoric times to the present, the ways in which man has made flour for his bread have forged the patterns of technological progress and have greatly influenced his social development. This book describes in detail how people of the western world have ground their grain - by hand, by animal-driven wheels, by crude water-powered mills, and, finally, by complex engineering methods. The story of milling provides a graphic history of man's ingenuity in the mechanical arts, his harnessing of power sources, and his development of agricultural skill. While the central theme is the improvement of technical processes, this development is presented, not in a vacuum, but in the context of economic geography and social history. Thus the volume offers much of importance to students of social economic history, archaeology, anthropology, sociology, agriculture, and general technology, as well as those with a specific interest in milling methods. The book brings to readers some of the advantages of what was originally projected as a museum of flour milling several years ago by General Mills. Walter Dorwin Teague, the noted industrial designer, drew plans for the museum and arranged for the fundamental research, which was carried out by Dr. John Storck, anthropologist and former professor at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College. Hundreds of detailed drawings illustrating the processes and devices described were prepared under their direction. Although plans for the museum had to be abandoned, the extensive research and excellent illustrative material are now made available in this comprehensive, single volume history of milling and its social and economic implications.

The Essential Home-Ground Flour Book

The Essential Home-Ground Flour Book
Author: Sue Becker
Publisher: Robert Rose
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-05-10
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780778805342

How to create flour at home. The many benefits of home flour milling include taste and flavor and the appeal of making a healthy food that tastes good and is seriously nutritous. Home ground flour milling can also save countless dollars just in the cost of bread alone, especially for those with special dietary needs and restrictions, and improved health leads to reduced medical costs. This comprehensive how-to details the whole process behind home flour milling with features such as: The history of whole grains and grain anatomy Benefits of commercially milled flour vs home milled flour Tools and equipment for home flour milling Baking basics including mixing methods and techniques -- the importance of gluten and moisture Going with the grains -- a thorough description of grains such as barley, rye, kamut and buckwheat Nut flours such as almond Baking with freshly milled grains. There are also 100 recipes for tasty quick breads, rolls and buns, muffins, pancakes, coffee cakes, biscuit and scones, cookies, brownies and pastries, plus others that are gluten-free, dairy-free and vegan. The Home Ground Flour Book is ideal for anyone who wants to create their own flours.

Bread

Bread
Author: William Rubel
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2011-10-15
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1861899610

It is difficult to think of a food more basic, more essential, and more universal than bread. Common to the diets of both the rich and the poor, bread is one of our oldest foods. Loaves and rolls have been found in ancient Egyptian tombs, and wheat has been found in pits where human settlements flourished 8,000 years ago. Many anthropologists argue that the ability to sow and reap cereals, the grains necessary for making bread, could be one of the main reasons why man settled in communities, and even today the concept of “breaking bread together” is a lasting symbol of the uniting power of a meal. Bread is an innovative mix of traditional history, cultural history, travelogue, and cookbook. William Rubel begins with the amazing invention of bread approximately 20,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent and ends by speculating on the ways in which cultural forces and advances in biotechnology may influence the development of bread in the twenty-first century. Rubel shows how simple choices, may be responsible for the widespread preference for wheat over other bread grains and for the millennia-old association of elite dining with white bread. He even provides an analysis of the different components of bread, such as crust and crumb, so that readers may better understand the breads they buy. With many recipes integrated with the text and a glossary covering one hundred breads, Bread goes well beyond the simple choice of white or wheat. Here, general readers will find an approachable introduction to the history of bread and to the many forms that bread takes throughout the world, and bread bakers will discover a history of the craft and new ways of thinking that will inspire experimentation.