British baker outrages Mexicans with attack on their ‘ugly’ bread

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British baker outrages Mexicans with attack on their ‘ugly’ bread

Food bloggers liken Richard Hart to Christopher Columbus for ‘stomping’ on a country that has welcomed him

A noted British baker has provoked a furore in Mexico by saying on a podcast the country does not “really have much of a bread culture”.

Richard Hart, who opened the Green Rhino bakery in Mexico City in June, also said the country’s wheat was “not good … completely highly processed, full of additives” and its sandwiches – tortas – were made “on these white ugly rolls that are pretty cheap and industrially made”.

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