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Episode 9: Mother, May I?
Modernist BreadCrumbs
English - October 24, 2018 16:15 - 42 minutes - 39 MB - ★★★★★ - 88 ratingsFood Arts Society & Culture modernist breadcrumbs modernist bread modernist cuisine michael harlan turkell nathan myhrvold francisco migoya bread baking food science food history Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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)
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