Seems that bread exhibits fractal characteristics. Somehow I missed out on that little factoid.

And just to prove it:

Midwood Chaos: The Fractal Dimension of Bread

So what’s it doing on Dangerous Thinking? Well, I’ve been reading Jeffrey Steingarten’s second course of writings about food Was it something I ate? (it’s just as essential reading as his first, The man who ate everything) and it kind of got dropped in the man’s enthusiastic and knowledgeable prose.

Does this man have my ideal job? I wonder…

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