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The Salt
Italy's Financial Crisis Means More (Bread) Dough At Home
April 16, 2013 A third of Italians are now making pizza at home, and 19 percent are baking their own bread, an association of Italian farmers reports. Bakeries are adapting by offering prepared food, and more importantly, sandwiches.
The Salt
Jihadi Fighters Win Hearts And Minds By Easing Syria's Bread Crisis
January 16, 2013 Jihadi groups have stepped in to provide fuel and generators to get Aleppo bakeries running again. [Please see full story/text for a post-broadcast correction.]
The Salt
In The Battle Between Health And Taste, Why White Bread Still Wins
January 11, 2013 We know we need to eat more whole grains like whole-wheat bread, but white bread crust gives off chemicals that smell better to most of us. To combat this, manufacturers add sugar to whole-wheat foods, but this can make them less healthy.
The Salt
Into The Wild Science Of Sourdough Bread-Making
March 21, 2012 Joe Palca told his sister, a baker in Brooklyn, N.Y., about a way to make sourdough bread using "wild" yeast starter. But she had a problem: It was sourer than she liked. Was there any way to wrestle it back from its acrid extremes?
The Salt
American History Baked Into The Loaves Of White Bread
March 4, 2012 From the racially charged Pure Food movement to the countercultural revolution of the 1960s, white bread has been at the spongy, store-bought heart of American food politics.
