Possible Short Idea: Bread Made From Ancient Yeast

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I don't think the team has done a video on this specifically, but if not, it could make for at least an interesting YouTube Short for the Food Theory channel.

It's an older story, but a short explaining how scientists baked bread from ancient yeast and ingredients that were available in ancient Egypt. Could maybe even tie it into the sourdough craze during the pandemic for how yeast starters are created. I thought I had read a different article about this describing how the scientist did all of his work in a clean room to try and avoid contamination and gave a description of how the bread tasted.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bread-was-made-using-4500-year-old-egyptian-yeast-180972842/

Posted May 27, 2023, 7:09 PM UTC

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