Bread Science: A Yeasty Conversation
Science Talk
Scientific American
4.2 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:36.0 | 2020. I'm Steve Merski. On this episode, the focus of |
| 0:40.6 | modernist bread was to explain everything there is to know pretty much about bread, which turns out |
| 0:46.0 | to be one of the most complex and technological foods that we commonly consume. That's W. Weight |
| 0:52.8 | Gibbs. You've heard him on science talk frequently in the |
| 0:56.0 | past few months as he's brought us in-depth coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. Wade is a |
| 1:01.7 | contributing editor here at Scientific American. He also works with Nathan Mirval, the principal author of |
| 1:07.3 | the multi-volume modernist cuisine. The sequel, if you will, is modernist bread for which Wait was a writer and editor. |
| 1:16.7 | Midway through Talking to Wait, we'll hear a segment sponsored by AstraZeneca. |
| 1:21.2 | Before COVID hit, Waite and I were at the same conference in San Francisco, so we got together to talk about bread. |
| 1:32.1 | Thank you. the same conference in San Francisco, so we got together to talk about bread. Wait, we had modernist cuisine how long ago? |
| 1:35.7 | 2011. |
| 1:36.6 | Let's get the quick summary of that project and then what this project is. |
| 1:42.0 | Sure. |
| 1:43.0 | Modernist cuisine, the art and science of cooking, was a five-volume, |
| 1:48.3 | about 2,500 page encyclopedic treatment of savory cooking, including the history from Roman times |
| 1:58.3 | to the presence, but with a focus on avant-garde cooking, hence modernist |
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