This was not quite the book I was looking for, the book's focus is more on history than bread. There isn't a cohesive flow between all the pieces of history highlighted. Grain and bread is loosely the connecting piece but feels like it is missing a general idea for the book besides times in history bread and grain are mentioned.

I'm tempted to give it 3 stars because there is interesting information about different regions of the world and their different types of grain. Plus the later chapters on bread's role in WWI and WWII is put together better, I think since its from the author's own time. However, I found myself skimming large sections of the book, it is tough to rate that high.

A better book about a commodity through history is Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlanksky. I think this is what I was looking for with bread the focus. Considering I rated that book 3 stars. I'll stand by this book as 2 stars.