Harold McGee and all-in-one breakfast bun

Posted on Oct 20, 2010 in Hiroko's Blog

We stopped at a local bread store for a cup of coffee on one morning in Kyoto.  Harold was enchanted with unusual looking extensively displayed varieties of “pan” (the name reminds us that bread was introduced by Portuguese in the 16th century) or, as we call them, breads in the display case.  In the case we saw so many varieties of breads.  These included curry pan (a deep-fried bun stuffed with Japanese curry), piroshki (a Russian deep-fried bun stuffed with...

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