The History of Bread, by John Ashton, Part 3
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
Sharon Handy
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Let's return to the relaxing world of bread and fall asleep to European peasant loaves, the origin of the croissant, and the heraldry of London's bread guilds. Delish!
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime. |
| 0:08.0 | I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep. |
| 0:17.0 | Before we begin, I'd like to give a special shout out of thanks to a new member of our Patreon family. |
| 0:25.0 | Alan. |
| 0:27.0 | Alan, thank you so much for supporting this podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | By becoming a member of Patreon, you help us remain 100% listener supported and ad free for everyone and it's very much appreciated. |
| 0:40.0 | And in this month of December, you and everyone else who supports us via Patreon, or through a one-time |
| 0:48.2 | tip via buy me a coffee.com, no subscription required, will be entered into a raffle for an extra special prize. |
| 0:57.5 | A three month subscription to Libro.F.M. |
| 1:01.6 | A wonderful source of audio books that supports independent bookstores while giving you an alternative to Amazon. |
| 1:09.0 | This membership will entitle you to three free audio books of your choice, with the profit split with the independent |
| 1:16.2 | bookstore of your choice, which is a pretty marvelous thing. |
| 1:20.8 | I'll be drawing the winner on Christmas Eve December 24th, so you have until then to get |
| 1:27.4 | your name and the stocking. |
| 1:30.0 | You'll find links to both Patreon and buy me a coffee |
| 1:33.1 | dot com in the show description, |
| 1:35.6 | and I hope you'll take a moment to check them out. |
| 1:39.6 | Now, let's read and relax. |
| 1:44.8 | Find a comfortable spot. |
| 1:48.4 | Adjust your volume. |
| 1:51.2 | Take a nice deep breath in. Let it out slowly. And off we go. |
| 2:00.0 | Tonight we're returning to one of the most popular books ever read on this podcast, |
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