Back to School: Modernist Bread

Jonathan Stevens

Modernist Bread, by Nathan Myhrvold and Francisco Migoya, 2,642 pages, hardcover (five volumes, boxed), The Cooking Lab, $625 (2017).

By Jonathan Stevens

Pssst: hey. The regular Home Ec teacher’s out with the flu and we’ve got this substitute, Mr. Myhrvold from Chemistry, in for the whole bread section. Brought his own five-volume textbook, too. Won’t let…