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White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf by Aaron Bobrow-Strain

3.0

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From basement bakeries to industrial production, this book details the history of store-bought bread in America. The choice between dark bread and white bread is really only a choice for the affluent. Choosing "good bread" also assumes moral superiority. But when poor men are needed for the first peacetime draft in 1940, The Great Depression has left them less than fighting fit. So how do you get these malnourished men the vitamins they need? By enriching the poor man's main staple: white bread.