The story of sliced bread illustrates the freedom Americans have to act on preferences, whether those are for convenience, taste, or tradition.

Believe it or not, the origins of sliced bread can be brought right back here to central Missouri.Pre-sliced bread made its ...

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A Missouri bakery became the first to sell pre-sliced bread using a machine invented by Iowa native Otto Frederick Rohwedder. Marketed as “the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread ...