But there is still baking to be done in the home, and each country has its favorite kind of home-made bread. Scotland has its oatcakes, and its bannocks made of barley meal. Central America has its tortillas, made of crushed corn. Our Southern states have beaten biscuit, corn pone, and all the delicious hot breads that go with fried chicken, Virginia ham, and candied yams.

Someone has said, “Tell me what you eat and I’ll tell you what you are.” This may or may not be possible, but it is certainly true that the bread a nation eats tells us a great many things about that nation. When only the rich eat fine white bread, while the poor eat coarse black bread, we know that something is wrong with that nation and trouble is ahead. When fleets of bakery wagons speed through the streets and over the highways carrying millions of loaves of carefully tested, carefully wrapped, fine white bread, we know that the nation is prosperous, because there is food for everyone.