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Meet the American who invented sliced bread: Otto Rohwedder, hard-luck hawkeye
Instead, he went back to the drawing board ... The bakery claimed "the distinction of being the first bakers in the world to sell sliced bread to the public." "Sales at the bakery shot up 1,000% ...
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The history of sliced bread from baking innovation to kitchen staple
‘Baking is always innovating, as it is a science as well as an art ... now being some of the most popular on the market. ”We are innovating constantly, introducing new sliced bread ranges ...
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A Missouri lawmaker is proposing a bill to create a Sliced Bread Day
The idea for Sliced Bread Day came from a museum in Chillicothe, Missouri. The city boasts of being the first to sell sliced bread on July 7, 1928. The president and curator of the Grand River ...
Smithsonian Magazine4mon
The Ridiculous Reason Why the U.S. Enacted a Wartime Ban on Sliced Bread Sales—and Why It Didn’t Last Long
A 1943 ban prohibited bakeries from selling ready-sliced bread, among other directives ... the Associated Press advised readers on a lost art: bread slicing. “Bakers advise housewives to keep ...
ABC 7 Chicago4y
The world's first and only Black-owned sliced bread company
CHICAGO -- Over the course of the past year, Charles Alexander, Mark Edmond, and Jamel Lewis have developed the first Black-owned gourmet sliced bread brand, The Black Bread Company. It all ...