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Edmund Conway's new book traces how the Chorleywood Bread Process reshaped British bread

Conway's book Trade World examines the Chorleywood Bread Process, a postwar industrial technique that changed how most British sliced bread is made, leaving telltale air cells visible in supermarket and sandwich loaves. He argues this shift, largely invisible to consumers, was actually one of the most consequential industrial policy interventions in modern British history, reshaping farming and the food supply chain nationwide.