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A Pollan-esque look at the truth about wheat: meal or menace? No topic in nutrition is more controversial than wheat. While mega-sellers like Grain Brain and Wheat Belly suggest that wheat may be the new asbestos, Stephen Yafa finds that it has been wrongly demonized. His revealing book sets the record straight, breaking down the botany of the wheat plant we've hijacked for our own use, the science of nutrition and digestion, the effects of mass production on our health, and questions about gluten and fiber - all to point us toward a better, richer diet. Wheat may be the most important food in human history, reaching from ancient times to General Mills. Yafa tours commercial factories where the needs of mass production trump the primacy of nutrition, and reports on the artisan grain revolution.



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Stephen Yafa

Stephen Yafa is an award-wining screenwriter whose most recent non-fiction book, Grain of Truth, separates fact from fad about the current gluten-free frenzy. Yafa shares his journey into the thriving culture of local artisan wheat from grower to baker. He becomes an obsessed sourdough home bread baker in the process, drops 10 pounds, and discovers that long fermentation makes wheat not only a delicious but safe choice for most of us. By delving into its benefits, Grain of Truth gives us back our daily bread.

Yafa developed a fascination for fermentation early on and wrote extensively about wine before founding Segue Cellars and becoming a wine producer of Pinot Noir in the Russian River region of West Sonoma. He also created and edited the iPad weekly wine magazine, Uncorked for Nomad Publications and wrote the lead story on viticulture on Santorini in Adventures In Wine from Travelers Tales.

As a screenwriter his screenplays have been produced at major Hollywood studios. He has also been a frequent contributor to Playboy and magazines that include Details, American Heritage and Rolling Stone, as well as Salon, online. Viking published his first non-fiction book, Cotton,The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber. He is married with three grown children and lives in Marin County.



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