This spring, as people worldwide sheltered at home to avoid spreading or catching the coronavirus, many home cooks cultivated their baking hobby or learned to make sourdough. “Your voice will never be silent … May you have life, forever.”
“I’m trying to learn from you, my friend,” he tweeted, as if speaking across time to the baker.
That’s when Seamus Blackley-a physicist and game designer best known for creating the Xbox-suctioned it up with a syringe and revived it in a sourdough starter.īlackley, an amateur Egyptologist, often thinks about this ancient baker as he attempts to re-create the bread of 2000 B.C. There the yeast slept like a microbial mummy for four millennia, until 2019. Once baked, the bread was buried in a dedication ceremony beneath the temple of Pharaoh Mentuhotep II on the west bank of the Nile. Around 2000 B.C., a baker in the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes captured yeast from the air and kneaded it into a triangle of dough.
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