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posted by chromas on Tuesday November 20 2018, @10:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the kitcheneering dept.

Eater has a longer article on how sourdough, and bread in general, is back in fashion and the changes being inflicted on the millenias-old staple by tech bros.

“I spent a lot of time — I don’t want to say ‘debugging,’ because that sounds really technical — but just working on recipes and trying to teach myself and there really weren’t a lot of materials out there at the time to do that,” he told me by phone this spring. “With bread baking, you kind of follow an algorithm to produce a result and that result isn’t always what you think it’s going to be, so you kind of have to step back and debug and diagnose the steps along the way. How did I go wrong here? That’s because technically the temperature might not be right or the dough strength might not be right. That iterative procedure and working through those algorithms kind of appeals to engineer. There’s the precision part of it, but also, when it comes down to it, technical people like to work with their hands. You want to construct something and I think bread is a good way to do that.”


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  • (Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Wednesday November 21 2018, @02:58AM (2 children)

    by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Wednesday November 21 2018, @02:58AM (#764555) Journal

    Yeah, exactly. The "paleo" diet is nonsense unless you eat the original wild plants and animals. I remember watching a video a few years back from an actual paleobotanist who tried to explain just how enormous the quantity of fiber you'd be eating would be to get the amount of calories in modern varieties of fruits and vegetables that have been bred over the millennia. And how much energy you'd expend chewing. And digesting.

    There's a very good reason why agriculture developed and the human diet focused more on grain (as well as breeding fruits and vegetables to be more calorie- and nutrient-dense) -- because living on the "real" paleo diet was difficult to get enough energy and nutrition from.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 21 2018, @04:03AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 21 2018, @04:03AM (#764572)

    The "paleo" diet is nonsense

    It works exactly as advertised. It is basically low carb so you feel less hungry (smaller insulin spikes I would guess). Anyone can try this shit for a week and see so it is ridiculous to still hear people pontificating about it.

    • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Thursday November 22 2018, @05:52PM

      by Immerman (3985) on Thursday November 22 2018, @05:52PM (#765257)

      Not knocking the actual diet itself - it is in fact a lot closer to scientific recommendations, and the diet of a "wild human". It's just that often pretentious people pretending they're actually eating anything like our ancestors did 100,000 years ago gets annoying fast.