With more interest in home-baked bread than ever before. And that means a lot of people are making friends with yeast for the first time. I am a professor of hospitality management and a former chef, ...

How is yeast made? Learn how to make your starter with fermented dough to produce bread with a lower glycemic index and kinder to gluten sensitivities. Creating your own yeast to fulfill your baking ...

I'll be honest: I haven't always been good at making bread. Mixing flour and water is fine, and I think kneading by hand is fun. It's the yeast that causes trouble. Yeast is essential to good bread, ...

Yeast has been used for thousands of years in the production of beer and wine and for adding fluff and flavor to bread. They are nature’s tiny factories that can feed on sugars found in fruit and ...

Researchers have combined over seven synthetic chromosomes that were made in the lab into a single yeast cell, resulting in a strain with more than 50% synthetic DNA that survives and replicates ...