Vermont's King Arthur Flour has long been a worldwide leader in culinary circles. Today, I would like to recognize the company's effort to produce a healthier bread, called Just Bread. King Arthur Flour, which is an employee-owned company in Norwich, VT, sells 350 loaves of Just Bread each week and also donates loaves to a local food shelf, in the true tradition of Vermonters reaching out to help others. In recognition of these efforts, I ask that the February 18, 2020, article ``The Whole-Grain Grail: A Sandwich Bread With Mass Appeal,'' by Amelia Nierenberg from the New York Times, be printed in the Congressional Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: [From the New York Times, Feb. 18, 2020] The Whole-Grain Grail: A Sandwich Bread With Mass Appeal (By Amelia Nierenberg) Elmore, VT.--When Blair Marvin started making and selling bread 15 years ago, she promised herself three things: She would never preslice it. She would never bake it in a pan. And she would certainly never sell it in plastic. But three years ago, as she was helping out in the one-room schoolhouse where her son, Phineas, attended first grade, she realized she had a problem. At lunch, his friends weren't eating sandwiches made from the stone-ground, organic loaves she and her husband baked at Elmore Mountain Bread, and sold in local supermarkets. Sure, the students had Vermont-churned cheese from Vermont-raised cows.…
On the recordMarch 10, 2020
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