There's A Breadmaking Gene Tied To the "Y" Chromosome In My Family
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I learned to make bread from my grandfather. I taught my kids to cook and bake. My son, Trevor, has, over the last year or so, taken up breadmaking and he has his own sourdough starter. This is a little unusual I realize that. The story gets better.
When I went to my Anderson-Mellon family reunion a couple of weeks ago, my cousin, John, and his wife, Kat, showed up with a couple of loaves of wonderful sourdough bread that he had made, one of which bore the initials "A M" in honor of our reunion. The story gets yet better.
This past weekend we enjoyed the company of my cousin, Pat, her husband, Dave, their son, Jim, and Dave's brother, Ken. Jim walked into my kitchen and and handed me a loaf of sourdough bread that he had made. It was very good, too! I was dumbfounded, if you can imagine that.
Who would ever have guessed. Of course all the women in my family make bread but who ever expected to see 4 men covering 3 generations all making bread - completely unbeknownst to each other. (Of course, my grandfather has been dead for many years but he would have gotten a good laugh from this.) What do you make of this? Do you think there is such a thing as a male breadmaking gene?
I learned to make bread from my grandfather. I taught my kids to cook and bake. My son, Trevor, has, over the last year or so, taken up breadmaking and he has his own sourdough starter. This is a little unusual I realize that. The story gets better.
When I went to my Anderson-Mellon family reunion a couple of weeks ago, my cousin, John, and his wife, Kat, showed up with a couple of loaves of wonderful sourdough bread that he had made, one of which bore the initials "A M" in honor of our reunion. The story gets yet better.
This past weekend we enjoyed the company of my cousin, Pat, her husband, Dave, their son, Jim, and Dave's brother, Ken. Jim walked into my kitchen and and handed me a loaf of sourdough bread that he had made. It was very good, too! I was dumbfounded, if you can imagine that.
Who would ever have guessed. Of course all the women in my family make bread but who ever expected to see 4 men covering 3 generations all making bread - completely unbeknownst to each other. (Of course, my grandfather has been dead for many years but he would have gotten a good laugh from this.) What do you make of this? Do you think there is such a thing as a male breadmaking gene?