Weird ruminations about bread:
Weird ruminations about bread: So, the other day I went to this bakery that makes really good, mostly older or more European style breads to pick up a loaf of something to try. It's about 30 minutes away. Anyway, I've had some of their other stuff and it's quite good. However, it's pricey. Except I was thinking about this. While it may or may not be more nutritionally valuable than buying something at the grocery store bakery, it's definitely more expensive and less convenient. Thing is, it's a small business, it's relatively local, and they do try to cooperatively support other local or regional businesses, like where they get their grains and such. And if you think about how much it probably ought to cost for a loaf of bread, accounting for if you get grain from a family farm, and so on all the way up the chain, and the baker makes bread in older ways that take more time (like up to 2 days for some types), and you don't get any of the economies of scal...