Overview
- Provides a description of the culture of European peoples with respect to the technology of bread
- Explains the process of bread fermentation using simple language combined with scientific rigor
- High quality pictures and illustrations enrich the scientific and cultural elements mentioned in each chapter
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This text comprehensively covers the rituals, traditions and receipts of ancestral processes of bread making from multiple countries, including the scientific and technological character of the science of bread making and sourdough biotechnology. Individual chapters cover the scientific aspects of bread making in different cultures and traditions as well as the technological phenomena occurring during the bread making process, utilizing the full network of SOURDOMICS from the COST initiative.
Pictures and illustrations are used to explain the science behind bread making processes and the cultural, historical and traditional elements associated with bread making in multiple countries. Authored by bread making experts from the breadth of Europe, the process of bread fermentation in each country and region is covered in detail. The traditions surrounding bread making are simply the empirical know-how passed between generations, and this book's main purpose is to perpetuate these traditions and know-how.
- Provides a description of the culture of European peoples with respect to the technology of bread making and sourdough biotechnology;
- Explains the process of bread fermentation using simple language combined with scientific rigor;
- High quality pictures and illustrations enrich the scientific and cultural elements mentioned in each chapter.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Kristian Pastor is a Research Associate in the Faculty of Technology at the University of Novi Sad in Novi Sad, Serbia.
Dr. Gul Ebru ORHUN is an Associate Professor at Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University in Canakkale, Turkey.
Dr. Anna McElhatton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Food Sciences and Nutrition at the University of Malta in Msida, Malta.
Dr. João Miguel F. Rocha is a Researcher at Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy (LEPABE), Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Traditional European Breads
Book Subtitle: An Illustrative Compendium of Ancestral Knowledge and Cultural Heritage
Editors: Marco Garcia-Vaquero, Kristian Pastor, Gul Ebru Orhun, Anna McElhatton, João Miguel F. Rocha
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23352-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23351-7Published: 17 May 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23354-8Due: 17 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-23352-4Published: 16 May 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 422
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 93 illustrations in colour
Topics: Food Microbiology, Food Science, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Heritage