Unless you’re reading this story in your grandmother’s Brooklyn or Minnesota kitchen, a loaf of dark bread just out of the oven, you may be part of the vast majority of people for whom dense rye ...

Germans have more bakeries and eat more varieties of bread than most other countries in the world — no wonder it’s so good.

You’ve seen the French sauntering around with slender baguettes under their arms or sporting jaunty berets as they pedal bicycles laden with crusty bread. Those cinematic scenes are nice, but when you ...

Male Speaker: Americans love their burger buns, French their baguettes. In Southern Europe, they eat ciabatta and flatbread. But nowhere else there are more different types of bread than in Germany: ...

Quickly picking up bread rolls on a Sunday morning can be difficult in Australia. A small German bakery in Mount Eliza, south of Melbourne, has been offering German-style baked goods for a year now.

At the Little German Bakery, Berliners of multiple kinds are massive, sweet and gooey. A traditional Berliner is fluffy, ...

Note: Adapted from “Peter Reinhart’s Whole Grain Breads: New Techniques, Extraordinary Flavor” by Peter Reinhart. Specialty flours are available at select well-stocked markets, health food, cooking ...