UPDATE: There’s been a development since this column was published see below.
English muffins fly under the radar. I’m not sure why. Maybe because they are denizens of the morning, generally, among the first foodstuffs we confront in that awkward hour between sleep and work. Maybe because English muffins are humble, stolid, reliable.
And therefore unsung. Chicagoans can prattle on about pizza, harangue endlessly over hot dogs, even occasionally acknowledge Chicago is, or was, the center of the candy universe, turning out everything from Baby Ruth bars to Lemonheads.
But English muffins are denied their due.
Opinion
I’ve just searched the Sun-Times back to 1948, the Tribune and Daily News even further, and found only a handful of stories mentioning that George Bay set to baking his grandmother’s English muffin recipe here in 1933, delivering his circular delights in paper bags to Loop hotels and restaurants.
Thomas English Muffins Has a New Variety That Tastes Like a Cinnamon Bun
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