Stephen Yafa
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Stephen Yafa

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Stephen Yafa is an award-wining screenwriter whose most recent non-fiction book, Grain of Truth, separates fact from fad about the current gluten-free frenzy. Yafa shares his journey into the thriving culture of local artisan wheat from grower to baker. He becomes an obsessed sourdough home bread baker in the process, drops 10 pounds, and discovers that long fermentation makes wheat not only a delicious but safe choice for most of us. By delving into its benefits, Grain of Truth gives us back our daily bread. Yafa developed a fascination for fermentation early on and wrote extensively about wine before founding Segue Cellars and becoming a wine producer of Pinot Noir in the Russian River region of West Sonoma. He also created and edited the iPad weekly wine magazine, Uncorked for Nomad Publications and wrote the lead story on viticulture on Santorini in Adventures In Wine from Travelers Tales. As a screenwriter his screenplays have been produced at major Hollywood studios. He has also been a frequent contributor to Playboy and magazines that include Details, American Heritage and Rolling Stone, as well as Salon, online. Viking published his first non-fiction book, Cotton,The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber. He is married with three grown children and lives in Marin County.
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