France has the baguette, India has naan, Scandinavia has rye, and Italy has focaccia and ciabatta. While the creation of these breads goes back centuries, one is secretly more of a modern-day creation ...

Bread is one of humanity’s oldest and most universal foods. Archaeological evidence suggests that people have been making bread for over 14,000 years, long before the advent of agriculture. The ...

A selection of kitchen tools was offered in a coupon book from the late 19th or early 20th century. Bread recipes in “The Deconness Home Cookbook” are interspersed with unattributed quotes that ...

Why that’s so is a question reader Joe Rouse submitted for Curious Louisiana. “What is the background of New Orleans French bread?” he asks. “We have been to Paris but saw nothing like that there.” As ...

. In the book he explores the factors that led to the popularity in white bread from fear of immigration, war and industrial ingenuity.

Anyone who loves po-boys will tell you the bread is the key to the sandwich. But anyone who spends much time contemplating the character of the po-boy may ask why its loaf is so commonly called French ...