Book · 2006 · Cooking
Good Bread Is Back
A Contemporary History of French Bread, the Way It Is Made, and the People Who Make It
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Stepen Kaplan is a US historian specializing in the French food history and the author of the 2008 book cursed bread which follows this incident.
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Steven Kaplan is a US historian specializing in the French food history and the author of the 2008 book Cursed Bread which follows this incident.
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Good Bread Is Back by Steven L. Kaplan is a historical examination of French baking traditions and the social, political, and cultural forces shaping bread production in France. The book was discussed on Behind the Bastards by Robert Evans and Garrison in multiple episodes during October 2021 and October 2023, specifically in the context of an infamous 1951 mass poisoning in the French town of Pont-Saint-Esprit. During the discussions, Robert Evans and Garrison introduced Steven Kaplan as a US historian specializing in French food history. They cited his work to present expert historical objections against the popular theory that the Central Intelligence Agency had covertly dosed the town with LSD as part of a mind-control experiment. The speakers noted that Kaplan's research and writing provided crucial pushback against this narrative, pointing out that the purported evidence linking the incident to the CIA was clinically incoherent and did not hold up under serious historical scrutiny. By bringing up Kaplan's book, the podcast hosts aimed to ground the bizarre historical mystery in rigorous academic expertise, offering listeners a skeptical and well-documented alternative to sensational conspiracy theories surrounding the mysterious outbreak of hallucinations and illness in the post-war French community.
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Robert Evans stepen Kaplan is a US historian specializing in the French food history and the author of the 2008 book cur… 3
“stepen Kaplan is a US historian specializing in the French food history and the author of the 2008 book cursed bread which follows this incident”
“So there there's some historians that think the LSD theory does not hold enough water. Um Steven Kaplan is a US historian specializing in the French food history and the author of the 2008 book Cursed Bread which follows this incident.”
“So there's some historians that think the LSD theory does not hold enough water. Um Steven Kaplan is a US historian specializing in the French food history and the author of the 2008 book Cursed Bread which follows this incident.”
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“Steven Kaplan is a US historian specializing in the French food history and the author of the 2008 book Cursed Bread which follows this incident.”
