Back in June, the folks at Metropolitan Bakery were kind enough to let us see behind the curtain, which led us to love their bread even more than we already did. The Metropolitan gang are born educators, it turns out, and as we went back and looked at this bit of tape recently, we realized that theirs is a great story about Philly’s earliest days of what we’ll call “enlightened locavorism.” Here, Metropolitan co-founder James Barrett talks about how he and Wendy Smith Born hardscrabbled the bakery, and how diet trends always seem to threaten them, but bread, as we all know, is forever.
Previously: Two Things To Remember About Bread, Courtesy Metropolitan Bakery