Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you

get some sleep.

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Now let's get to the reading, which this week comes to us by listener recommendation.

Tonight we're relaxing with the history of bread from prehistoric to

modern times, written by John Ashton and published in 1904 by the Religious Tract Society of London.

Let's begin.

Preface It It seems extraordinary, but it is nevertheless a fact that up to this present time

there has not been written in the English language a history of bread, although it is called

the Staff of Life and really is a large staple of food.

There have been small brochures on the subject,

and large volumes on the chemistry of bread,

its making and baking, and long controversies as to the merits of

whole meal and other kindred questions, but no history. It is to remedy this that I have written this book in which I have

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