Great Harvest Bread Co – Albuquerque, New Mexico
The sense of smell, more than any of our other senses, influences our ability to recall past events and experience. Fragrance is considered one of the most potent mediums for conjuring up a memory. True enough, one of the most enduring sensory memories of my youth is associated with the amazing aromas that greeted me each time my mom baked bread in her oven. How I wish I could relive those experiences now. Stupid kids that we were, my siblings and I preferred our sandwiches made on Rainbo or Wonder Bread (available for the staggering price of 25-cents per loaf back then). We thought only the “poor kids” packed school lunch sandwiches (in the days before free school lunches were the norm) made on homemade bread…worse yet, sandwiches made on tortillas. My how times have changed. Sadly, today the singular joy of incredible yeasty bouquets wafting through the air is one younger generations may never experience. Though bread baking experienced a resurgence during the dark days of the Cabrona Virus, much of it was done on bread makers. From the standpoint of aroma, it just isn’t the same as loaves of bread being made on an old-fashioned oven. If my…
