The chemistry of fermentation may explain how bread rises, but its persistence across cultures explains why it never falls from favor. Bread is one of those foods that seems eternal. For more than ...

None of this surprises Stephen Jones. Jones is a wheat breeder and the director of Washington State University’s Bread Lab, located about six hours north of WSU’s campus. Jones and his team conduct ...

The best thing since sliced bread may be bread crust: Researchers in Germany have discovered that the crust is a rich source of antioxidants and may provide a much stronger health benefit than the ...

The smell of bread is said, along with freshly brewed coffee, to be one of the most enticing sensory experiences (a U.K. based survey found that the smell of freshly baked bread was the nation’s ...

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Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots. She is the author of the books Live or Die: Survival Hacks, Wizarding World: Movie Magic Amazing Artifacts, The Star ...