Homemade Bread Baking: A Tradition That Never Left the Kitchen0

• FOOD, LIFESTYLE, WORLD
• September 23, 2025

When James “Jim” Whitaker was a boy in the 1950s, the smell of bread baking in his mother’s kitchen was as familiar as the sound of the morning rooster on his family’s small farm in Indiana. “You didn’t need an alarm clock,” Jim, now 78, says with a chuckle. “The smell of yeast rising and