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The Real Bread Campaign
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Published 2016
From Roman and medieval statutes, through 19th-century wholemeal advocates, including Sylvester Graham and Thomas Allinson, and national newspaper campaigns in the early 20th century, and the Campaign for Real Bread that ran in Britain as the 1970s turned into the 1980s, the fight for better bread is perhaps as old as bread itself.
Since the 1990s, the number of bakers working tirelessly to share their passion for (and loaves of) Real Bread has grown enormously, as has the interest for what they make and how they make it. A milestone in the origins of the current Real Bread Campaign, which works to unite these people as a coordinated movement, was the 2006 publication of Andrew Whitley’s book Bread Matters. An attempt at putting down the knowledge he’d built up founding and running The Village Bakery Melmerby, between 1976 and 2002, Bread Matters sets out what has gone wrong and, importantly, what we can all do to help change things for the better.
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