For centuries, bread has been a food staple. “I got six loaves of bread for a quarter at a bakery, and a bucket of syrup at a grocery...I would dip the bread in the syrup and eat it, and that was what I lived on,” penned the starving attorney Oliver H. Cross, who began his law career in McGregor, Texas, in 1894. The bread must have done its job. He went on to become district attorn


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