San Francisco is proud of its bread.
舊金山以其生產的面包為榮。
Distinctly sour with a golden crust.
金黃色外皮,帶著明顯的酸味。
Legend has it that miners ran off to look for gold forgetting all about the half-baked bread dough they'd started.
傳說礦工們跑去尋找金子,把他們做了一半的烤面包面團給忘了。
Later, they discovered it tasted very different from other batches sour.
后來,他們發現面包的味道和其他批次的酸味不同。
They didn't know it, but bacteria would become the flavor of the town.
他們不知道的是,細菌會成為這個城市的特色。
Sourdough bread is made from a special sourdough starter at Boudin
酸面包是用特殊酸發酵劑制成的,
the same starter or mother dough has been used every day since 1849.
自1849年以來,布德面包房每天都使用相同的發酵劑或母面團。
Willy Joseph has been a baker at Boudin for 33 years.
威利·約瑟夫在布德面包房當了33年的面包師。
They put flour and water and we mix for 10 minutes.
放面粉和水,攪拌10分鐘。
That's a normal fermented dough.
那是普通的發酵面團。
It's normal with Laur and water and the mother dough is refreshed every day.
用月桂和水是正常做法,母面團每天都會煥然一新。
From a piece of dough, you duplicate it for tomorrow.
明天再從一塊面團中復制出一塊。
And that's makes the bread sour.
這讓面包變酸了。
If you don't have the mother though, you don't get no sour.
如果沒有母面團,就不會有酸味。
No one knew what exactly gave sourdough bread its flavor
直到1970年,美國農業部的研究人員揭開了酸味的秘密,
until 1970 when researchers from the United States Department of Agriculture uncovered the secret of the sour.
才有人知道是什么賦予了酸面包的味道。
A unique strain of lactobacilli bacteria.
一種獨特的乳酸桿菌。
They named it as you might expect lactobacillus san francisco.
他們把它命名為舊金山乳酸桿菌。
For so many years, people produced this product really not understanding what was going on.
這么多年來,生產這種產品的人真的不明白是怎么回事。
Now scientifically we understand what is actually happening to produce that local bread.
現在,我們通過科學了解到當地面包的生產過程。
The art is now melded with the science.
藝術與科學融為一體。
The steam out of the oven comes in and all that flavor all that smell, you know, people get all, so good.
從烤箱里出來的蒸汽進來了,所有的味道和氣味,真是太好了。
It's everything mother dough, San Francisco, the fog the bacteria the climb.
是母面團、舊金山、霧、細菌、攀爬。
If you'd like a glass of milk or slice of cheese with your bread, call on bacteria.
如果你想在面包里放一杯牛奶或一片奶酪,那就用細菌吧。
If this is a machine for turning grass into milk, it's gears are bacteria.
如果這是把草變成牛奶的機器,其齒輪就是細菌。