The smell of bread is said, along with freshly brewed coffee, to be one of the most enticing sensory experiences (a U.K. based survey found that the smell of freshly baked bread was the nation’s ...

The chemistry of fermentation may explain how bread rises, but its persistence across cultures explains why it never falls from favor. Bread is one of those foods that seems eternal. For more than ...

Experiment with using this ratio the next time you bake bread at home, and chances are your loaf will turn out practically ...

Everyone, it seems, has tried sourdough during the lockdown. But that ubiquitous jar of starter contains a dynamic microbial ecosystem that scientists are only beginning to understand. Natasha ...

The new book — over 2,000 pages, with step-by-step images and a hefty list price of $625 — chronicles the history and science of bread-making in depth (“Baking is applied microbiology,” one chapter ...