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Two recent articles in The Guardian, each with echoes and source material:
Saturday's article reports that the University of Leeds has bought A pamflyt compiled of Cheese, contayninge the differences, nature, qualities and goodnes, of the same, a handwritten booklet from the sixteenth century, the earliest known book about British (I suspect that's 'English') cheese. Checking back to the online version of the article reveals that they had already published this news a year ago. But since that time, the copy of the 'pamflyt' uploaded to the University's website has been transcribed. So it's worth repeating.
A few days later came an article on bakery tourism: people who travel implausible distances to sample the products of a particular bakery. I like this idea: not so much having such refined taste that you have to cross the Pennines to buy your sourdough, as planning something special as the endpoint of a journey you will enjoy anyway. The article describes this a a pilgrimage (though it says it in Korean, which is classy); and (despite anything I may recently have been saying to the contrary) I like this idea of pilgrimage as a journey with a purpose, and it seems as reasonable to plan your holiday around bakeries as around restaurants - and if you wanted to do that, there is a guide book (which the Guardian duly name-checks, but does not offer to sell through its bookshop). I'm tempted, even though many of the treats described are too sweet for me: I want what the article starts out by invoking, "the perfect loaf or croissant," not "[your] signature 'croissant bomb' - a crispy outer filled with chocolate or hazelnut or salted caramel."
Or maybe I shoud just go to Denmark, where they are apparently having a rye bread revival.
Saturday's article reports that the University of Leeds has bought A pamflyt compiled of Cheese, contayninge the differences, nature, qualities and goodnes, of the same, a handwritten booklet from the sixteenth century, the earliest known book about British (I suspect that's 'English') cheese. Checking back to the online version of the article reveals that they had already published this news a year ago. But since that time, the copy of the 'pamflyt' uploaded to the University's website has been transcribed. So it's worth repeating.
A few days later came an article on bakery tourism: people who travel implausible distances to sample the products of a particular bakery. I like this idea: not so much having such refined taste that you have to cross the Pennines to buy your sourdough, as planning something special as the endpoint of a journey you will enjoy anyway. The article describes this a a pilgrimage (though it says it in Korean, which is classy); and (despite anything I may recently have been saying to the contrary) I like this idea of pilgrimage as a journey with a purpose, and it seems as reasonable to plan your holiday around bakeries as around restaurants - and if you wanted to do that, there is a guide book (which the Guardian duly name-checks, but does not offer to sell through its bookshop). I'm tempted, even though many of the treats described are too sweet for me: I want what the article starts out by invoking, "the perfect loaf or croissant," not "[your] signature 'croissant bomb' - a crispy outer filled with chocolate or hazelnut or salted caramel."
Or maybe I shoud just go to Denmark, where they are apparently having a rye bread revival.
