How great Canadian wheat ruined industrial bread The cheaper the flour, the more profitable the bread

George Weston created Garfield Weston, who created Allied Bakeries to improve British bread by selling more Canadian wheat. Then came the Chorleywood Bread Process.

Barges and bread A new book looks at London and the grain trade

Even before the Romans, grain arrived in what was to become London by water, and it continues to do so today, although the mechanics of the trade have changed beyond recognition. One of the last people to move grain by water upstream from London shares her experience and the history of moving grain by water.

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Little bits of 2017: Part II Rachel Laudan on the rise and fall of white bread

Rachel Laudan on the rise and fall of white bread

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