Challenge - Eating 90 loaves in 90 days..
Hi Everyone..
I recently came across this site: http://www.eatbread90.com/
This lady (founder of a site called bakerpedia - Dr. Lin Carson, with a phd in grain biology?) has decided to eat 90 loaves of bread in 90 days to dispel the myth that eating bread is bad for you.. she's eating about 90% of her daily calories via breads. I've started listening to the podcasts - and I'll warn you that there's a lot of promotion going on as they provide her breads to eat and she is letting them promote their breads and products. Most of the promotion is for commercial baking products or processes. Look past that tough, and there are some real interesting gems in there. It's essentially a group of people that love bread, talking about loving bread, making bread and eating bread. I'm enjoying it - but the promotion stuff is a bit "ugh".. she's at day 65 or so.. after I get caught up on the pod casts, I'll go back and read her blog entries.. A bit bread-geekie I'll admit, but I find it interesting..
Thought I'd share.. enjoy..
Here's the site: http://www.eatbread90.com/
Here's the podcast: http://bakerpedia.com/podcasts/
Bake happy..
I'm not sure that the number I read for per capita bread consumption in some regions and eras was 1 kg / day. That is what I seem to recall but take it with a grain of salt.
Also, the people eating those copious amounts of bread had laborious, physically demanding work and did most of their daily travel on foot. The breads they ate were mostly lean breads, except at holidays, made with stone-ground wholegrain flours and were (generally) naturally leavened. All in all, quite different from a person eating a pound / day of the stuff you find on supermarket shelves in today's largely sedentary society. I'm impressed that her weight hasn't gone up. She has done an admirable job of replacing calories from other sources, rather than adding to what she was already eating.
Paul
that amount since the folks wee mainly poor that hat is all they could afford to eat, In ancient Rome bread was free for the poor and that was their diet. For us diabetics eating that much bread would likely get our feet cut off before the days were over.
I tun into TFL to read about bread fanatics who are just as addicted to bread, but better bread that they make themselves without all the ads if you use an ad blocker.
Nice post Paul