From the archive: Flour power: meet the bread heads baking a better loaf

从档案中:面粉的力量:认识那些烘焙出更好面包的面包狂热者

The Audio Long Read

2026-07-01

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We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2019: The days of the mass-produced pappy white British supermarket loaf may be numbered. Meet the bread heads revolutionising the way we eat By Wendell Steavenson. Read by Lucy Scott. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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  • The Guardian Archive Long Read.

  • Hello, I'm Wendell Stevenson, and this is about a piece I wrote in 2019. Flower Power,

  • meet the bread heads baking a better loaf.

  • So it's a story about bread,

  • but it's really a story about the infrastructure behind bread and how that bread gets into your basket.

  • So it's about...