Английская Википедия:Alan Scott (blacksmith)

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Other people Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use Australian English Шаблон:Infobox person Alan Scott (2 March 1936 – 26 January 2009) was a blacksmith and baking traditionalist who designed and built brick ovens and coauthored a book promoting their use for cooking breads and pizza.[1] He built ovens in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, and started the Ovencrafters company.[2]

Life

Scott was born in Toorak in Victoria, Australia on 2 March 1936. He graduated from Dookie Agricultural College,[3] and afterwards went to work for a fertilizer company.[1] Leaving his job at 25,[3] Scott traveled throughout Australia, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Denmark—all hitchhiking. Eventually, he settled in Denmark and opened a jewelry store.[1]

Scott emigrated to the United States from Australia in the mid-1960s, where he opened a smithy in Northern California. When a friend, Laurel Robertson, commissioned him to forge handles for a brick oven she intended to build, Scott became interested in the oven itself. He redesigned the oven to better retain heat.[1] Scott soon became an expert in the construction and use of brick ovens. In 1999, he published The Bread Builders: Hearth Loaves and Masonry Ovens with his apprentice Daniel Wing.[1][4] The Bread Builders contained a treatise on the history and science of bread making, and gave detailed specifications for how to build a brick oven.[1] The book eventually sold over 25,000 copies.[5]

Returning to Australia in 2004, Scott opened a practice in Oatlands.[3] He also became involved in the effort to recommence operations at the Callington Mill.[3] Scott's interest in the project stemmed in part from the desirable properties of slowly stone-ground flour, which include the wheat's germ oil being ground into the flour and the retention of nutrients due to low milling temperatures.[3]

Scott died on 26 January 2009 in Tasmania of congestive heart failure. His company, Ovencrafters, is now run by his children. The company designs and builds custom brick ovens,[1] and has designed and created numerous ovens for clients throughout the United States, as well as in other countries, including Canada and Australia.[6]

Advocacy

Scott spent much of his time conducting workshops and overseeing the building of community ovens, which he believed brought communities together.[2][5] He further lectured on and encouraged small-scale industry, environmental stewardship, community connectivity and spiritual consideration.[2] His business, Ovencrafters, pushed for "policy with principles, commerce with morality, wealth with work, and science with humanity".[2]

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  1. ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 1,5 1,6 Шаблон:Cite news
  2. ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 Шаблон:Cite web Шаблон:Dead link
  3. ↑ 3,0 3,1 3,2 3,3 3,4 Шаблон:Cite web
  4. ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
  5. ↑ 5,0 5,1 Шаблон:Cite news
  6. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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