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Who’s Who in Food
Culinary Personalities

• Who's Who: P-Q-R • Pace, David E. • Page, Karen • Papin, Denis • Pasteur, Louis • Peanut, Mr. • Pemberton, John S. • Perkins, Edwin E. • Phillipe, Count Odette • Plautus • Plunkett, Roy J. • Post, Charles William • Proust, Joseph-Louis • Proust, Marcel • Prudhomme, Paul • Reese, H. B. • Ritz, Cesar • Rodier, Father Clement • Rohwedder, Otto Frederick

Otto Frederick Rohwedder

(early 20th century)

Otto Frederick Rohwedder has been called the father of sliced bread. He worked for many years on developing a bread slicer, starting in 1912.

His firsts efforts met with resistance from bakers, who informed him that the sliced bread would quickly go stale. By 1928, Rohwedder had finally designed a slicer that would also wrap the bread. He finally perfected it, and the first sliced bread was produced and sold at M.F. Bench's Chillicothe Baking Company, 100 Elm Street in Chillicothe, Missouri. 

According to the story, Mr. Bench assisted Rohwedder in the fine tuning the new bread slicing machine. The Chillicothe, Missouri Constitution-Tribune of July 7, 1928 carried a story of the new machines first use.