The reason I mention this is because the title of his book, Baking in America, always reminds me of one of the most amazing two volume set of books published in the late 50's on baking history in the US. Entitled, Baking in America, they are the most extensive and incisive history of bread, bread baking and bakeries in America I had ever seen. Not sure it's ever been outdone. The books also well referenced with sources I had never heard of it took me almost a decade to go through them all.
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From his book, Montana Cooking, which references some of the works he used for Baking in America (readily available on Amazon and many used book stores in digital or printed forms). EBay has it for 3 or 4 dollars. "Greg Patent is a food writer and cookbook author whose most recent cookbook, A Baker’s Odyssey: Celebrating Time-Honored Recipes from America’s Rich Immigrant Heritage, which includes a companion DVD, was published in December 2007, by John Wiley & Sons. His previous cookbook, Baking in America: Traditional and Contemporary Favorites from the Past 200 Years (Houghton Mifflin), won the 2003 James Beard Award for Best Baking Book of the Year and the World Gourmand Cookbook Award for Best Baking Book in the English Language. He is also the author of A Is for Apple, co-authored with his wife, Dorothy (Broadway Books, 1999), and numerous other cookbooks."
I appreciate your commentary on the shadow food system. Never been a fan of Regional Food Bank probably for that reason. Love all I learned from One World Everybody Eats and send money to world Central Kitchen. It’s so hard to know how to help…
The reason I mention this is because the title of his book, Baking in America, always reminds me of one of the most amazing two volume set of books published in the late 50's on baking history in the US. Entitled, Baking in America, they are the most extensive and incisive history of bread, bread baking and bakeries in America I had ever seen. Not sure it's ever been outdone. The books also well referenced with sources I had never heard of it took me almost a decade to go through them all.
Yes I love that set! By William Panschar. I alternate between looking at the digitized copies and the ones I bought. Incredible resources.
From his book, Montana Cooking, which references some of the works he used for Baking in America (readily available on Amazon and many used book stores in digital or printed forms). EBay has it for 3 or 4 dollars. "Greg Patent is a food writer and cookbook author whose most recent cookbook, A Baker’s Odyssey: Celebrating Time-Honored Recipes from America’s Rich Immigrant Heritage, which includes a companion DVD, was published in December 2007, by John Wiley & Sons. His previous cookbook, Baking in America: Traditional and Contemporary Favorites from the Past 200 Years (Houghton Mifflin), won the 2003 James Beard Award for Best Baking Book of the Year and the World Gourmand Cookbook Award for Best Baking Book in the English Language. He is also the author of A Is for Apple, co-authored with his wife, Dorothy (Broadway Books, 1999), and numerous other cookbooks."
Thanks Ken, I’m glad to know more of him—really interesting work!
I appreciate your commentary on the shadow food system. Never been a fan of Regional Food Bank probably for that reason. Love all I learned from One World Everybody Eats and send money to world Central Kitchen. It’s so hard to know how to help…