White bread

[laughs] No, rightfully so, a big chapter, but also correct that we've got other breads to discuss.

So moving along to, um, the really iconic kind of white bread, and that's not just sort of a 20th, mid-20th century sort of thing.

I mean, you talk in the book about the 19th century being a time where people were talking a lot about white bread and whether or not it was healthy.

I mean, in some ways it sounded really kind of familiar to debates still being had today, but also in some ways some of the arguments they were making seemed pretty different.

So what were they worried about in the 19th century, and were these sort of hyped up worries or did they have a point?

Um, I think that they had a point.

Um, we're talk- I mean, this, this, this, the issue of wheat versus white bread came up in 1832, um, with a man named Sylvester Graham.

Um, I think w- well, everybody knows what a graham cracker is.

[laughs] No, rightfully so a big chapter, but also correct that we've got other breads to discuss.

So moving along to, um, the really iconic kind of white bread, and that's not just sort of a 20th, mid-20th century sort of thing.

I mean, you talk in the book about the 19th century being a time where people were talking a lot about white bread and whether or not it was healthy.

I mean, in some ways it sounded really kind of familiar to debates still being had today, but also in some ways, some of the arguments they were making seemed pretty different.

So what were they worried about in the 19th century, and were these sort of hyped up worries, or did they have a point?

Um, I think that they had a point.

Um, we're talk- I mean, this, this, this, the issue of wheat versus white bread came up in 1832, um, with a man named Sylvester Graham.

Um, I think w- w- well, everybody knows what a graham cracker is.