Please Explain: Wonder Bread

vor 13 Jahren

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Please Explain (The Leonard Lopate Show)

In Please Explain, we set aside time every Friday afternoon to get to the bottom of one complex issue. We’ll back up and review the basic facts and principles of complicated issues across a broad range of topics — history, politics, science, you name i...

Kunst , Gesellschaft , Politiknachrichten

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vor 13 Jahren

Aaron Bobrow-Strain, author of White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf and professor of politics at Whitman Collede, explains the colorful history of white bread and tells us what makes it so soft, so white, and have such a long shelf life. He'll also discuss how the kind of bread you eat has defined social status for centuries.