While riding his bike through England during a summer trip to Europe he bought English Bread and Yeast Cookery, Elizabeth David's 1977 book on breadmaking and bread history.
An Associated Press story appearing in the August 1, 2011 online version of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch detailed the breadmaking there.
The Europäisches Brotmuseum e.V. Ebergötzen (European Bread Museum of Ebergoetzen), in South Lower Saxony, Germany, is a rurally located museum dedicated to the historical development of breadmaking and related subjects in Europe.