And still we rise: small bakeries embrace Ireland's love affair with bread

We are a nation obsessed with our loaves and these bakeries are meeting our demand for top quality goods, writes Mary Cate Smith

Angela Nöthlings of Ryes & Shine Microbakery, Cork, preshaping the Mayfield bloomer. Picture: Denis Minihane.

While stockpiled sliced pans of processed white bread became a status symbol during the Big Freeze, post-pandemic, processed bread is veritably passé. 

Wellbeing is more of a priority than ever and a slew of innovative bakers are re-inventing bread to meet this need.