Best Breads

These are good times for bread in America. The intoxicating smell of baking bread is everywhere! Pass by a bakery in almost any town, big or small, and you’ll want to follow the aroma. It will bring to mind all the meaningful things in life: your grandma lovingly kneading bread for Sunday supper; your own first, perhaps clumsy, attempts at making a loaf or two; ample stone ovens serving as the center of small villages around the world; those amber waves of grain. Just one whiff, and a flurry of images.