It was the break of dawn on a Thursday, as the monsoon waned in late October, that we descended from the skies over the slum rooftops and landed at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai.

Editor’s note: In recent weeks, Dispatch reporters, along with photographer and videographer Doral Chenoweth III, fanned out across the metro area to spotlight the city’s diverse bread scene. What ...

Most Fridays we buy a loaf of challah for the newsroom at Stone Soup, a restaurant on College Street. Stone Soup bakers make the braided bread every week, in accordance with the Jewish Sabbath. It ...