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Internet Resources
Baking | Description, History, Types, & Facts. In Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica
https://www.britannica.com/topic/baking
This source is from the web version of Encyclopedia Britannica, which provides a description, history, and gives details on the importance of specific ingredients, techniques, and the chemical process of baking. This source gives a great overview but does require additional information when researching a specific topic.
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Classics
https://doi-org.libproxy.albany.edu/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.8055
This source comes from the Oxford Classical Dictionary, which gives insight into how baking was important in the time of Rome. This source is on a specific time era and place.
A brief history of baking
https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/a-brief-history-of-baking/
This source gives an overview of baking throughout the middle ages to the 19th century. This source is from the website History Extra which is the website for the printed BBC History Magazine. The sources in this article are professors of history and have been credited by the BBC’s standards. Please note that this is a brief history of baking throughout time, and a lot more information on specific time periods can be found elsewhere.
Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Italy
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/languages/italian/explore-the-baking-and-culture-europe-italy
This source is used for learning languages, but it also gives great information on European countries, and how their culture affects the type of food they bake. This link is for Italy, but there are a variety of other European countries such as Germany, the Netherlands, and others. This source does not include all European countries and does not include Asian countries.
Pandemic Bakers Bring the Past to Life
https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/ancient-egyptian-bread/
This source is from the online magazine Sapiens. It is a modern article with references and information on bread made in Ancient Egypt. Besides being a good resource on baking in ancient history, it also is a tribute to how important baking is today.
The Food Timeline: cake history notes.
http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodcakes.html
This source is from foodtimeline.org, which gives specific information on the history of cake. This source is limited by its narrow topic but gives a generous amount of information.
The Food Timeline: history notes--bread.
http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodbreads.html
This source is from foodtimline.org which gives very specific information on a baked good. This webpage is about bread, its history, and its uses. Although this source has a lot of information it is on a narrow topic
In the Sahara, the Solace of Community Baking
This source consists of telling a story on baking in the remote community found in the Sahara desert with photographs and captions. This source is great information on why baking is important and how the act of baking can change lives.
Articles
Articles tagged as Baking | Smithsonian Magazine
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/tag/baking/
This source is the Smithsonian website which shows results under the tag baking. A variety of articles on specific topics allow the user to look into anything specific they have in mind from baking in Roman times to articles in modern contexts.
14,000 Year Old Piece of Bread Rewrites the History of Baking and Farming
This source is an article published on the NPR news website about how a piece of bread from 14,000 years ago tells historians about baking and the life of people in that time period. This source is specifically on this artifact that has been found but is a great example of how baking and food are an important part of human history.
Biblical baking: People find they can blend spirituality and cooking using the scripture.
This article is from the Journal Times website, a local newspaper in Wisconsin, is about religious connections with baking. This is a specific look at how religious influences are in baking as well as integrated into people’s culture.
The Rise of Anxiety Baking
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/12/baking-anxiety-millennials/578404/
This article is about how baking impacts human emotion and connection. This is a recent article and gives a more modern context to what baking means to people today.
Databases
The Shifter
The Shifter is a database that consists of 5,000 works of related content to baking and cooking. each source of work gives details on the resource as well as the author who wrote it. This database is great to use for finding old recipes and compare how baking techniques and food preference has evolved over time.
Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
This source is provided by Gale eBooks database from the Encyclopedia of food and culture. This is a section from that book on baking, which gives comprehensive information on the history and techniques of baking.
Print Books
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The Great American Cookbook by Clementine Paddleford
This book is the cultivation of recipes from different regions of the United States. Originally published in 1960, these recipes have been passed down and are a representation of different cultures coming together to create baked food that represents where people came from.
An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage
This book is a comprehensive view of how food has shaped societies around the world.
How Baking Works: Exploring the Fundamentals of Baking Science by Paula Figoni
This book, available to read online, is on the science of baking, explaining how the process works. This source is good for background knowledge to understand the baking process, or for a user that needs specific research on the baking process.
Videos
Find links to videos and documentary trailers on the video tab
History in the Baking
This video source is by King Aruther Baking company which gives a history of the companies role in baking in the United States. Although this source gives good context, be aware that it is a select source from the perspective of King Arthur Flour.
Baking Through History: 400 years in 4 minutes
This video is a more general source of history and how baking has evolved over the years. Although the video covers 400 years of baking history it should be used as a source for general information.
The Rise and Fall of Sourdough: 6,000 Years of Bread
This video is done by professor Eric Pallant of Gresham College. It is a look at how Sourdough bread, the original bread, was used in the time of Egypt to a modern context. This source is specific at looking at sourdough and not other forms of baking.
Documentaries
Cooked by Michal Pollan
This documentary series is all about fresh food being cooked. Although this source is not specifically about baking, it does give good background knowledge of food and how it is important to human culture. Journalist Michael Pollan does a good job of combining research with interviews to make this series a good source of information.
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
This documentary series is a great source for understanding how foods work and how important food is to various cultures around the world. This source does have a lot to do with cooking but it gives a good background to how different elements of food interact with each other and is a good look at how food is cultivated and used around the world.
Timeline
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The History Of Baking
This is a graphic of a timeline on important breakthroughs in baking history.