If you’ve ever mixed dough, kneaded and baked it, you know breadmaking is a hot, tiresome and time-consuming process.

Does any food on this planet smell better than fresh bread? Research actually proves that a whiff of a hot loaf makes us kinder to strangers.

Why the different types of matzah and their symbolism? Each had to be offered for a different reason.

Later, Abbott’s grandparents took over the business, opening more restaurants and, eventually, a bread factory with 75 employees and 45 trucks that distributed Anadama bread throughout New England.