The Birth of Delicious Modern White Bread (also Bad White Bread) with Notes on the Kaiser Roll, Which Was Briefly Considered the Best Bread in the World
By James MacGuire
1. Modern bread arrives in Paris from Vienna
For a short time in the 1860s and 70s, the best flour in the world came from Austria Hungary, and it made the best bread. The quality of the flour didn’t come just from the wheat but from new ways of milling. A jury at the Paris International Exposition of 1867 confirmed that…