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Maria Cristina Borgazzi, the daughter of Noemi, who opened the eponymous trattoria in 1958, holding one of the restaurant's main dishes: pasticcio.
food

The Italian Town Where You Can Eat Like a Renaissance Royal

Residents of Ferrara dine like 16th-century dukes.
Rebecca Ann Hughes February 22, 2022
The Bread Lab's grains are very different from what's in most grocery store flour.
science

Welcome to the Bread Lab

These scientists want you to love whole wheat.
Susannah Skiver Barton February 15, 2022
Gastro Obscura

Korovai

The Ukrainian wedding bread is so beautiful, it's displayed near the altar.
A recently-unearthed pot of rye bread sits on the shore of Lake Laugarvatn.
hot springs

The Icelandic Bakery That Buries Its Bread in Hot Springs

Laugarvatn Fontana's sweet, cakey rye gets baked by geothermal energy.
Tiffany Eastham January 17, 2022
libraries

Podcast: Sourdough Library

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team October 12, 2021
The finished cottage loaf, left, with a simple version of <em>boeuf en daube</em>.
food

Virginia Woolf and the Complexities of Cottage Loaf

The famous feminist’s love for baking helps us understand her relationship with food, class, and mental illness.
Reina Gattuso September 24, 2021
The Biddenden Maids sign
Biddenden, England

Biddenden Maids

Eliza and Mary Chulkhurst were the first famous conjoined twins in England, but it's not clear when they were born.
science

Podcast: Sourdough Library

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team May 5, 2021
An Alaskan miner bakes a loaf, likely of sourdough, in 1898.
food

Why Longtime Alaska Residents Are Called 'Sourdoughs'

It's not just bread; it's a way of life.
Bailey Berg January 15, 2021
Two workers blend a tiger nut mixture for cakes in this painting from the tomb of a vizier.
food

Recreate the Ancient Egyptian Recipes Painted on Tomb Walls

Make bread fit for a pharaoh and a sweet treat out of tiger nuts.
Jess Eng August 21, 2020
Fernando Padilla has designed all of Boudin's breads for the last 40 years.
food

The Master Baker Giving San Francisco Sourdough a New Shape

For 40 years, Fernando Padilla has sculpted with dough.
Anne Ewbank July 2, 2020
Bread can be turned into a hearty soup.
food

7 Ways the World Transforms Leftover Bread Into Delicious Dishes and Drinks

Highlights from a long history of turning crumbs into puddings, soups, and brews.
Natasha Frost June 12, 2020
science

Scientists Need Your Sourdough to Solve a Microbial Mystery

For North Carolina researchers, every starter is more data.
Hannah Thomasy June 1, 2020
Bake up some birds.
food

7 Spectacular Breads to Make Once You’ve Mastered the Frog Loaf

From crispy popovers to artful bird cakes, take a carb cruise around the world.
Anne Ewbank May 29, 2020
Stoinerne Ma
Augsburg, Germany

Steinerner Mann (Stone Man)

Legend says this sculpture commemorates a brave baker who rescued the city in the Thirty Years' War.
A global pandemic brought this ancient mill roaring back to life.
museums

How Coronavirus Put an Ancient Flour Mill Back to Work

“You can hear the creaks, smell the grain—you really feel the age of it.”
Luke Fater May 1, 2020
This bread comes with a side of fortune-telling.
food

7 Wondrous Breads to Make When You’ve Had Enough Sourdough

There's a wide world of recipes that don’t require buying yeast.
Sam O'Brien April 10, 2020
The ancient yeast could only be revived with Emmer, an older, less common varietal of wheat likely used by ancient Egyptians.
science

How the Man Who Invented Xbox Baked a 4,500-Year-Old Egyptian Sourdough

It took three experts, two museums, and one clay pot to bake a truly ancient loaf.
Luke Fater April 2, 2020