The Building Blocks

Grains and Flours

Appears in
Bien Cuit: The Art of Bread

By Zachary Golper and Peter Kaminsky

Published 2015

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At its heart, bread baking is the art of turning dry, relatively flavorless ground grain—flour—into a delicious food with great complexity and variety. There are many tricks to the bread baker’s art but no escaping the fact that it all begins with flour.