Know your breads: the Swiss take their bread seriously. It is a recommended topic of study in primary school curricula around the country and fresh bread is usually served with at least one meal per day. To meet this need, there are over 3,300 industrial and trade bakeries in Switzerland. Together they produce at least 350 different varieties of bread.

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Know your breads: the Swiss take their bread seriously. It is a recommended topic of study in primary school curricula around the country and fresh bread is usually served with at least one meal per day. To meet this need, there are over 3,300 industrial and trade bakeries in Switzerland. Together they produce at least 350 different varieties of bread.

Swiss watches, the Swiss Alps, Swiss chocolate and Swiss cheese--we have all heard how wonderful these were before we ever set foot in the country, but Swiss bread? What a wonderful surprise it is! All supermarkets carry freshly baked bread and there is a bakery on almost crew city street corner with a tantalising display of fresh breads in th...

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