The half-baked truth - The Times 1st November 2007

The average loaf is full of emulsifiers and preservatives. What happened to real bread? Ah, bread. Is there anyone left in the Western world who doesn’t have some sort of dysfunctional relationship with the staff of life? To half the female population bread is The Enemy, the bloaty fasttrack to a lardy bottom and a straining waistband. If you doubt it observe a group of women in a restaurant when the bread basket arrives and see how most of them recoil as if being offered a pannier of live snakes. To men too bread is frequently the first “sinful” thing to go when they start a new health regime. Protein – good. Carbs – evil.

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