So you're in the bread aisle thinking about switching up your breakfast game by choosing something other than bagels or your usual loaf for toast. You find English muffins and crumpets and now have to ...

Our appetites are hard-wired to seek comfort from food during colder months – stews, soups and roasts are welcomed back into our lives after a summer of salads and barbecues. The bread bin starts to ...

I do like muffins, and when I think of American-style muffins I think of a large cupcake ranging in flavors from corn, bran to blueberry. Hot out of the oven or split and toasted with butter they are ...

As an Englishwoman, I am particularly partial to crumpets, which are related somewhat to English muffins but oh, so superior! Until recently they were for sale only during the winter months, and to me ...

A cousin to the English muffin, a crumpet uses yeast and baking soda to prompt fermentation, which helps create its characteristic holes. Baked on a griddle with a metal ring similar to ones used for ...

What we refer to as an English muffin was born in the U.S. It was invented by an English immigrant, Samuel Bath Thomas. You may not know his name but certainly will recognize the name of the bakery he ...

Some time ago, I found myself in the unenviable position of having to describe a crumpet to one of my friends. Despite my repeated attempts, he still had no clue what I was talking about, and kept on ...