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, ...

Scientists have baked a sourdough loaf of bread using yeast strains harvested from a 5,000-year-old mummy and now plan to see if they can use them to brew beer too. The yeast came from Ötzi the Iceman ...

I won’t delve into biology too much, but yeast, like us, is happy when it has food, water, oxygen, and a warm cozy environment. When yeast is happy, it begins to ferment. One by-product of this ...

Team now plans to see if they can use yeast strains harvested from Ötzi the Iceman to brew beer too Scientists have baked a sourdough loaf of bread using yeast strains harvested from a 5,000-year-old ...