Where’s the best free restaurant bread in America?
Katie Weaver, a staff writer at The Atlantic, embarks on a deeply personal and absurdly specific quest to find the best free restaurant bread in America, only to discover it’s as much about grief, memory, and small acts of kindness as it is about carbs.
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