• Question: why did you choose to study bread ? what do you like about it so much ?

    Asked by hazzagaga to Rachel, Duncan, Grant, Julie, Nik on 15 Mar 2013. This question was also asked by kjt2000.
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      Grant Campbell answered on 15 Mar 2013:

      My first job out of university was with a baking company, and that’s when I first started to find bread interesting. Then, when I arrived in Cambridge to do my PhD, one of the topics that was available was about bread, and as I say, by then my heart had warmed to bread as a subject, so I chose this topic. And I’m glad I did – when you do a PhD, you study the same thing for 3 years, so it’s important that you find it interesting. In my case I’m still finding bread interesting to study after 25 years! The particular expertise that I have, on bubbles in bread, gives interesting new ways of looking at this old and familiar food, and is also relevant to lots of other foods.

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