Thanksgiving is full of baked goods. Well, it should be. But I guess it’s okay to buy some processed sweet that is on sale at Costco. Whatever, man. It’s your stomach. For some reason, people think not enough calories are consumed during the big meal, so dessert is always included in some form of a pie, usually apple pie, sweet potato pie, pumpkin pie, pecan pie or chocolate cream pie. My family goes for cake because my mom and cousin have birthdays that are either on the day itself or within the week. So whether it’s cake or something else, one can learn about the art of baking at the Harold M. Freund American Museum of Baking in Kansas. In 1982, good ol’ Harold gave the American Institute of Baking the world’s largest collection of bakery figurines. He also set up funds to establish a museum, which has grown to include a number of priceless items: samples of Egyptian bread and cake more than 3,800 years old, terra cotta bread stamps from Greece, Roman era bread, a historic collection of bread pans and two hundred year old books on baking. The collection also includes a number of historic photos from the U.S. Army Training School for Advanced Bakers (located in Chicago), above you can see military officers checking out the field o
Harold M. Freund American Museum of Baking in Kansas
