Sliced bread -- that is, loaves of bread sold pre-sliced to make our favorite sandwiches or freshly buttered toast extra convenient -- is a relatively recent invention. The bread-slicing machine was ...

If Davenport ever has a slogan for sweatshirts, it should say: “Davenport, The Home Of Sliced Bread.” It was here that machine-sliced bread was invented. It ranks as one of the most resourceful ...

“The greatest thing since sliced bread” has been a proverbial expression for 70 years. By now it has a quaint, even faintly ironic ring--was sliced bread really greater than computers, space travel ...

(CBS News) And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: July 7th, 1928, 85 years ago today . . . an historic day any way you slice it. For that was the day the Chillicothe Baking Company of ...

We owe sliced bread as we know it to Otto Rohwedder, who built the first commercial loaf-at-a-time bread-slicing machine. As Paul Wenske recounts in The Kansas City Star, Rohwedder spent 13 years ...

When the Covid pandemic first forced people to spend more time at home in 2020, bread baking became a popular pastime, so much so that grocery stores experienced flour and yeast shortages across the ...

SLICED bread is considered a staple food today – be it for a tasty lunchtime sandwich, or a quick slice of toast for breakfast. But the humble, pre-sliced loaf has ...

Four pints of milk, chicken breasts, cheddar cheese, and a loaf of sliced bread – all popular staples on the average family’s shopping list. But when walking down the bread aisle of your average ...