Six Thousand Years of Bread: Its Holy and Unholy History Kindle Edition

This is a very in depth writing of so much more than simply the making of bread. Mr. Jacob, himself, has a very interesting and difficult past, that lends to the story only after your get to the final chapter.This is a story of civilization, not a dry, politically correct form of civilization,but the long and difficult process of why we in the western world are who we are.I have read Thucydides at least five times, read Plato's Republic 2x, Homer 4x, Aristotle, Tacitus, Caesar. I have read Don Boorstein, Michner, Donald Kagen, Michael Wood, Niall Ferguson......But this book is a glue that helps put all the pieces together.....An entire college course should be written for this book.I had just recently purchased "Cheese and Culture", by Kindstedt, and immediately found the approach to be towards artisan cheese makers, providing them with the history of cheese, which is fine, but contrived.The Bread Book is has nothing to do with baking better bread, it is about life itself.I am tired of this younger generation, rediscovering, and reinventing the many wheels, with no understanding of why.The intrinsic value has been lost, civilization itself is fragile and the the long road cannot be explained in baking a better loaf of bread.

One of the best books I've ever read. Its not the history of bread, but history caused by bread. Small but really important clarification. Would be great if someone picked up where it left off (book was written/published in the 1940's), but even so, fantastic read

A most detailed account of everything you could imagine to do with bread. Certainly the staff of life, its importance and how greatly mankind's history has been affected by the availability or not of bread. It was manipulated by those with evil intentions. I learnt far more than I expected and hope that it becomes widely read.

Some very interesting insights connecting the art of breathd-making and consumption with global and local events. I knew about the connection between bread and the French Revolution, but most of the other connections boggled my mind, especially since there miht well be more than a simple grain of possible truth in them.

Great History Lesson, a Little Dry, But Did You Know Christ Hung Out With Bread Bakers?.....Fishermen Too!

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The book looks at human progress through the lens of mankind's essential element: bread. It's a different perspective and far more inclusive than exclusive. Bread - or the lack thereof - started wars and rebellions, encouraged the growth of agriculture and cities, and delivered us to the point that many now view bread and boring and old.Well worth reading.

Very well researched and a fascinating, well written story. If you bake bread it's a must have.

I came to this book as an amateur bread maker but found six thousand years of history written from the viewpoint of agriculture and in particular, our daily bread. The writer illustrates how every war is won or lost by bread or lack of it. You don't have to be a baker to enjoy this book but t is even more fascinating if you do bake your own bread as I have done for the past sixty years. It is a long book but I enjoyed every minute of it.

Only managed to read a couple of dozen pages before I gave up. This book was published 70 years ago and would never get published now. Full of speculation and unattributable stories about the early days of bread and its role in history. Complely non scientific and based on the authors speculation. Thank God they dont publish books like this anymore.

A strange book. Written more than seventy years ago, it's an interesting period piece but short on scholarly research and long on opinion and assumption. Would never get published today without a lot more authoritative research going into it.

It's OK this book per se but it was a bit overbearing and in the end I gave it away.

A few transcription errors around ns and ms but superb content. The ending in particular is a humbling experience of an author who has been to hell and back again.