Aaron Bobrow-Strain's White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf will be published in March 2012 by Beacon Press. When not baking in Mexico, he teaches politics at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.

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  February 2012: Atomic Bread Baking at Home
  The history of sliced bread in America provides a cautionary tale for equating food intake with societal health.