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Listen to my interview with host Liane Hansen on NPR's Weekend Edition
"This is Weekend Edition from NPR News. I'm Liane Hansen. William Alexander can be compared to a crusader, a man on a quest for the holy grain. The acclaimed author of The $64 Tomato decided that for one year he would bake a loaf of bread a week. Not just any bread, no croissant, nor dinner rolls, Alexander wanted to perfect a peasant bread he once tasted. In the course of his odyssey, he grows and grinds his own wheat, wins second place in a New York State Fair bread contest and revived the art of bread making in a 1,300-year-old monastery in Normandy...." |
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