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5,000-Year-Old Bread Recipe Recreated in Turkey—and Locals Can’t Get Enough

A bread made from ancient grains is rising again in Turkey, and it's a big hit.

Human History Natalia Mesa Jun 1

Archaeologists Uncover 7,000-Year-Old Focaccia Seasoned With Animal Fats and Plant Oils

An international team of researchers analyzed organic residues in ceramic trays used by Neolithic people in the Near East to bake bread and focaccia.

Human History Margherita Bassi Nov 28

Everybody’s Making Sourdough in 2020 But My Sister’s Is the Nerdiest

There are a few universal truths in this world. Water is wet, the Earth is round, and there will always be things your siblings do better than you. In my case, my older sister Christine Elderkin-Campos bakes delicious homemade sourdough. As if that weren’t enough, she’s also taken to stenciling her creations with nerdy art.…

Movies Beth Elderkin Oct 23

Ancient Mummies Exhumed, Forced to Chaperone School Field Trip

Mummies aren’t scary. In fact, they’re some of the least scary monsters around, thanks to becoming generic CG action flick villains in movies like The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy (2017). But the decline of the creatures in pop culture began earlier than that, thanks to a TV series titled Mummies Alive, one of the…

io9 Rob Bricken Oct 21

Discovery of 14,000-Year-Old Toast Suggests Bread Can Be Added to Paleo Diet

Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest evidence of bread-making at a site in northeastern Jordan. Dating back some 14,400 years, the discovery shows that ancient hunter-gatherers were making and eating bread 4,000 years before the Neolithic era and the introduction of agriculture. So much for the “Paleo Diet” actually being a thing. Bread-making predates agriculture, according…

Human History George Dvorsky Jul 16

Baking in Space Is About to Be the Most Delicious Experiment

Living in space is rife with challenges, among them, grappling with a gaping void of loneliness and dealing with a subpar food selection. Astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) have the unique torture of being so close to Earth, yet so far away from all its tasty delights. But one German company is determined…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta Jun 12

Actually, Bread Crusts Are Good

The world might feel like it’s ending, but that doesn’t mean researchers should give up the pursuit of establishing truths via evidence-based science. Nor should they give up the aromatic crusts of a fresh-baked loaf of French baguette. Ooh la la, happy Friday. Eating food freaking rocks, in part thanks to the aromatic compounds, also…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Apr 14

Bread Starts Screwing the Environment Before It’s a Loaf

Welcome to planet Earth, little wheat berry. I know, you didn’t ask to be brought into the world…no one did. But you should know that you started fucking the planet over just by being here. Sure, it may seem like things will get worse when you grow up, what with all of the greenhouse gas…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Feb 28

There Could Be a Crazy Health Benefit to Eating Stale Bread

Every other day, someone writes a story about something causing or preventing cancer. Usually, it’s all hype or the explanation is a snooze, but sometimes, the research is just strange enough to grab our attention. That’s the case with a new study, which details how stale bread might help ward off colon cancer. Researchers from RMIT…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Feb 10

This Bread Maker’s Accent Is Like a Massage for Your Brain

Most of the letters that chef Bruno Albouze says are vowels, and eeeeiiit souwnduhs ieencrayedaboulh. I think this is a video where he teaches you to make a baguette-like bread, but honestly I’m too blissed out on his voice. He’s like Bob Ross but from some fictional European country. Did you hear he just said…

Sploid Avery Ellis Feb 26

Screw Unkar Plutt, Use This Recipe to Make as Many Portions of Rey’s Bread as You Want

Go on. You deserve more than a quarter portion. Star Wars fans will obsess over the most minor details from the movies, and Rey’s instant-bread from the early sequences of The Force Awakens was definitely a thing that people obsessed over. (Seriously, go search Twitter for “Rey Bread.”) When the first details of how the…

io9 James Whitbrook Feb 24

Watching Breakfast Get Made Can Be So Calming

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, they say. But they don’t know how hard it is to make when you’re a zombie rushing to get to work. If only we had the time to carefully consider breakfast and start the day right. Peaceful Cuisine gives breakfast a healthy spin in this video…

Sploid Casey Chan Dec 28

Video: How the delicious bread for po’ boys are made

More so than other sandwiches, a great po’ boy needs to have the best bread that’s made for a po’ boy. It needs to be light and crispy but also fluffy and without all that, a po’ boy wouldn’t really be a po’ boy then. Here is Mind of a Chef showing how John Gendusa…

Sploid Casey Chan Dec 16

Watching baking bread rise is almost pornographic

The smell of baking bread is like the universal language for neck-breaking, nose-enlightening deliciousness. It’s impossible not to smile to yourself at the idea of fresh bread. It’s everything good in the world, it’s possibility, and it’s just damn good to eat. And watching bread bake in a timelapse? Who knew that your eyes could…

Sploid Casey Chan Sep 9

Stop Refrigerating Your Butter

Do you keep your butter in the refrigerator? You do? Stop it. Stop it right this second. You’re ruining your butter experience and making your toast taste like failure. Let me tell you why. Butter is a wonderful substance. Made by churning cream until it separates into buttermilk and fat globules, butter is not only…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Aug 18

How to make bread like they did 2,000 years ago

Way, way back in 79 AD, a baker put a loaf of bread into his oven and then Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried the city. The oven was found and opened in 1930 during excavations and the recipe has been recreated by chef Giorgio Locatelli. He uses buckwheat flour, which was more readily available then,…

Sploid Casey Chan Aug 7

Bread Is A Foam. Yes, Really.

The phrase “edible foam” either conjures up images of overwrought and overplated kitchen chemistry experiments or the top layer of a freshly poured beer. But it also describes the most standard of foods: bread. Because bread is also a foam. In the latest Lucky Peach, Harold McGee author of the food science classic On Food…

io9 Ria Misra Mar 30

Watching the amazing skills of this baker is almost hypnotizing

Do yourself a favor and watch the video below. It’s such a joy to see someone enjoy his job so much. He bakes bread, tosses flour, massages dough, slices open holes and even cleans and takes out the trash with so much energy that he looks like a kid bouncing around in a playground after…

Sploid Casey Chan Dec 12

Making Hot Air Bread Balloons With An Industrial-Strength Blower

Here is the most fun way to make bread: Prepare a massive pile of dough, brightly colored with natural dyes; cut off a small section and flatten it out; place that pizza-like sheet on top of an industrial-strength blower and watch it inflate into a toasty, instantly edible balloon. Blow Dough was the brainchild of…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Jul 23

This restaurant might have the best bread and butter in the world

The bread and butter at Razza Pizza Artiginale is made by James Beard Rising Star Chef semi-finalist Dan Richer. He’s the chef behind the restaurant and might be more obsessed with bread and butter than any person on the planet. This video shows how he made his restaurant’s bread and butter the most delicious. It’s…

Sploid Casey Chan Jul 16

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5,000-Year-Old Bread Recipe Recreated in Turkey—and Locals Can’t Get Enough

Archaeologists Uncover 7,000-Year-Old Focaccia Seasoned With Animal Fats and Plant Oils

Everybody’s Making Sourdough in 2020 But My Sister’s Is the Nerdiest

Ancient Mummies Exhumed, Forced to Chaperone School Field Trip

Discovery of 14,000-Year-Old Toast Suggests Bread Can Be Added to Paleo Diet

Baking in Space Is About to Be the Most Delicious Experiment

Actually, Bread Crusts Are Good

Bread Starts Screwing the Environment Before It’s a Loaf

There Could Be a Crazy Health Benefit to Eating Stale Bread

This Bread Maker’s Accent Is Like a Massage for Your Brain

Screw Unkar Plutt, Use This Recipe to Make as Many Portions of Rey’s Bread as You Want

Watching Breakfast Get Made Can Be So Calming

Video: How the delicious bread for po’ boys are made

Watching baking bread rise is almost pornographic

Stop Refrigerating Your Butter

How to make bread like they did 2,000 years ago

Bread Is A Foam. Yes, Really.

Watching the amazing skills of this baker is almost hypnotizing

Making Hot Air Bread Balloons With An Industrial-Strength Blower

This restaurant might have the best bread and butter in the world

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