March 13, 2019
The Big Pond #19: German Bread – A Nourishing Craft

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Germany is internationally renowned for its bread. With more than 3,000 varieties of bread, the Germans are world champions. Since 2014, German bread culture is even an immaterial world cultural heritage, recognized by UNESCO. But the traditional baker's craft is threatened because there is a lack of new blood and competition from large-scale bakeries and cheap prebake stations.

For The Big Pond, producer Iris Ollech follows the seductive scent of bread. At 1 a.m., she is at baker Charly’s bakery, she meets the owner of one of the last artisan grain mills in Germany, asks a bread sommelier about his recommendations, tastes delicious bread dumplings, Semmelknödel, and interviews bread enthusiasts. 
 

Music: “Cantus Honoris” by Marktsprech courtesy of ZYX Music; “Oktoberfest-Ländler (Sololändler)” by the Münchner Oktoberfest Musikanten, courtesy of Bogner Records Download the recipe
 

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