This July marks a dubious anniversary. It is 50 years since the invention of the Chorleywood bread process, which transformed bread-making in Britain. Before the war 'bread' meant something that took ...

Four pints of milk, chicken breasts, cheddar cheese, and a loaf of sliced bread – all popular staples on the average family’s shopping list. But when walking down the bread aisle of your average ...

Back in the early 1960s, the national loaf was fundamentally redesigned. The flour and yeast were changed and a combination of intense energy and additives completely displaced time in the maturing of ...

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Supermarkets waft baking smells through their stores to whet appetites and loosen purse strings. But these days, what you smell is not necessarily what you get. Supermarket chains regularly proclaim ...

Freezing your bread and then toasting it can boost its resistant starch, which acts like fiber in your gut. Eating bread that ...

Sanjay Hegde, the noted lawyer and commentator on national affairs (you’ve probably seen him on TV), tweeted to me some months ago about bread. Why was it, he asked, that the pav of Bombay was always ...

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If bread forms a ball that sticks to the roof of your mouth as you chew, thank the Chorleywood Bread Process - but don't dwell on what it will shortly be doing to your guts. This is Britain's bread: a ...

Fresh bread - you can’t beat it. House-sellers let its aroma do the talking. Supermarkets waft baking smells through their stores to whet appetites and loosen purse strings. But a recent ruling by the ...