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Episode 9: Mother, May I?
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Length:
42 minutes
Released:
Oct 24, 2018
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Podcast episode
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Welcome to Season Two of Modernist BreadCrumbs!
It seems only natural—and appropriately poetic—to start this season talking about starters. They’re the inception of the loaf, the first step. You don’t need a starter to make bread, but the story of cultivating yeast from the environment around us—whether you call it “starter,” “culture,” “levain," or “mother”—is what we’re focusing on in this episode, from microbes to miche.
We'll hear from Executive Producer Michael Harlan Turkell about his "mother," baker Sarah Owens about her "Beast," microbial ecologists Dr. Erin McKenney and Dr. Rob Dunn of The Sourdough Project, and, of course, co-authors of "Modernist Bread," Nathan Myhrvold and Francsico Migoya.
“Sourdough for Science” Link: http://studentsdiscover.org/lesson/sourdough-for-science
“New Year, New Bread” Link: http://studentsdiscover.org/lesson/new-year-new-bread
Puratos Sourdough Library Virtual Tour Link: https://www.poppr.be/virtualtour/puratos/#p=scene_p1.html
Photo credit: Nathan Myhrvold / The Cooking Lab, LLC.
Theme music: Thomas Hughes and Gretchen Lohse (@carolclevelandsings)
Modernist BreadCrumbs is powered by Simplecast.
It seems only natural—and appropriately poetic—to start this season talking about starters. They’re the inception of the loaf, the first step. You don’t need a starter to make bread, but the story of cultivating yeast from the environment around us—whether you call it “starter,” “culture,” “levain," or “mother”—is what we’re focusing on in this episode, from microbes to miche.
We'll hear from Executive Producer Michael Harlan Turkell about his "mother," baker Sarah Owens about her "Beast," microbial ecologists Dr. Erin McKenney and Dr. Rob Dunn of The Sourdough Project, and, of course, co-authors of "Modernist Bread," Nathan Myhrvold and Francsico Migoya.
“Sourdough for Science” Link: http://studentsdiscover.org/lesson/sourdough-for-science
“New Year, New Bread” Link: http://studentsdiscover.org/lesson/new-year-new-bread
Puratos Sourdough Library Virtual Tour Link: https://www.poppr.be/virtualtour/puratos/#p=scene_p1.html
Photo credit: Nathan Myhrvold / The Cooking Lab, LLC.
Theme music: Thomas Hughes and Gretchen Lohse (@carolclevelandsings)
Modernist BreadCrumbs is powered by Simplecast.
Released:
Oct 24, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (19)
Episode 2: The Great Civilizations of Grain: This is Episode Two of Modernist BreadCrumbs: “The Great Civilizations of Grain,” on grains, flour, and milling. In this episode, we look inside with a kernel of knowledge, sprout ancient grains, and take a journey through wheat’s history. We could go on for flours. Modernist BreadCrumbs is a special collaborative podcast series with Heritage Radio Network and Modernist Cuisine, that takes a fresh look at one of the oldest staples of the human diet—bread. Although it may seem simple, bread is much more complex than you think. From the microbes that power fermentation to the economics of growing grain, there’s a story behind every loaf. Each episode will reveal those stories and more, beginning with bread’s surprising and often complicated past, from the perspective of people who are passionate about bread, and shaping its future. by Modernist BreadCrumbs