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The Food Programme

Micro-Bakeries

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4976 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The rise and rise of the micro-bakery. How home baked bread became a business opportunity.

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W.W. dot B.C. dot co. UK slash Radio 4 and now enjoy the podcast Beggman is baking man is baking bread.

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Bacon man.

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This baking bread.

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Today we're meeting the micro bakers, the growing band of men and women around the UK who are supplementing their

1:26.0

incomes or even making a living producing grape bread. You'll find them selling

1:31.2

their bread from their kitchen doors at markets and car boot sales in cafes and local delis

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anywhere they can find. Some are using fridges and then oven space in local restaurant kitchens.

1:44.0

Some are working out of freight containers and houseboats.

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More are producing just from their own kitchen ovens.

1:51.0

The rise of micro-brew breweries led to a beer revolution in Britain. Is microbaking

1:57.0

going to do the same for bread? Well, the stories in today's program might give you some

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