[WorkingClassFilth]

The microbrew revolution was the best thing that ever happened in this country, brew-wise - it raised the bar for quality and uniqueness.

It was pure, unfettered economics. The same thing has happened in the ice cream, bread and artisan cheese realms. The food industry had so diluted these basic products of life, that the screaming need to return to basic, tradition and quality was revelatory. These guys are just frosting the cake.

[RayChuang88]

The food industry had so diluted these basic products of life, that the screaming need to return to basic, tradition and quality was revelatory.

Interestingly enough, what made it possible for "craft made" ice cream, beers, breads and cheeses were modern food manufacturing technology that made it possible to do high-quality food on a larger scale and at lower cost. I've talked with people who work for "artisan" bakeries when I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area and they all told me that couldn't make a lot of "artisan" breads without modern food processing technologies that makes it possible to do stone-ground multi-grain flour on a really large scale.