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The baker's new clothes

by Dan Lepard
The baker's new clothes

(from British Baker, first published April 2001)
I have a confession to make. I intensely dislike our white baker’s jacket, blue hairnet and white baker’s trilby. Can’t begin to tell you. Sure, it’s traditional if you think that our industry began sometime after the after the First World War. Perhaps it’s hygienic, though given the state [...]