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Bread

Dorset Knobs

Only one bakery still makes these hard biscuits that were once beloved by Thomas Hardy.

Święconka

This Polish Easter tradition artfully assembles symbolic foods, from bread to lamb-shaped butter.

A charnel house at the Saints Innocents Cemetery, Paris.

In 1590, Starving Parisians Ground Human Bones Into Bread

During a siege, desperation drove people to disinter skeletons from cemeteries.

Emily Monaco October 29, 2018

Fujisan Bread

Worlds collide in this braided bread that tastes like brioche and is meant to look like Mount Fuji.

A Visit to the World's Only Sourdough Library

Step inside Karl De Smedt's singular collection of starters.

Lizzie Philip October 11, 2018

Trenary Toast

Finnish immigrants brought these crunchy, cinnamon-coated slices to Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Bolo Lêvedo

Portugal's volcanic archipelago is home to addictively sweet and chewy muffins.

Video • Gastro Obscura

Meet the Man Behind the World’s Only Sourdough Library

Yorkshire Parkin from the vintage cookbook "Farmhouse Cookery."

Yorkshire Parkin

On November 5, the British celebrate a thwarted assassination attempt with bonfires and deliciously dense, sticky gingerbread.

Piki, thinner than the paper towel its wrapped inside.

Piki Bread

This ultra-thin blue corn delicacy is traditionally eaten at Hopi weddings.

Kvass

You can find authentic versions of this sour Slavic brew at street stalls and monasteries.

San Biagio Platani, Italy

Arches of Bread Festival

Every Easter, a small Sicilian town builds a stunning cathedral out of bread.

Carta di Musica

Bread so thin, you can read music through the dough.

Lampredotto

The secret to this sandwich is the cow’s fourth stomach.

Permanently Closed

The ovens.

Oranienburg, Germany

Abandoned SS Brotfabrik

A crumbling bakery where forced laborers from the nearby concentration camp toiled to feed their fellow prisoners and Nazi soldiers.

The dumpling gets boiled inside a hickory leaf.

Cherokee Bean Bread

Bakers delicately wrap this corn-and-bean dumpling in hickory leaves before boiling.

The Scanning Electron Microscope photograph of bread found at Shubayqa 1.

Found: 14,400-Year-Old Flatbread Remains That Predate Agriculture

The burned crumbs shed light on prehistoric hunter-gatherers’ diets.

Paula Mejia July 16, 2018

Taguella

A desert dweller’s delight, this bread gets baked in sand.