On October 16 we went to Zu bakery. We started by dividing into two groups and the first group was sent into the bakery. The first thing we learned about was called bread geography. Barak, the baker, said that his bread only had three ingredients. The water had traveled roughly five miles to his bakery. Next was the wheat which had traveled roughly 300 miles and was from Aroostook County and finally, the salt traveled from Ireland and France, a journey of roughly three thousand miles. Next we charted something called the wheat geography which was the parts of a wheat berry. He showed us a diagram of the parts of a wheat berry. In a wheat berry there are three parts: the endosperm, the bran, and the germ. Each of them do their own thing to help the berries grow and thrive. We saw his brick oven, talked about how he makes the bread, and even got to taste some! When we were getting on the bus he handed us each a stick of the chocolate that he uses to make chocolate croissants. It was so fun and we learned a lot about how bread is made! You can find Zu Bakery breads in farmer's markets like the one in Brunswick.
Emile and Harper
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