Soft, dark & handsome: Milwaukee Pretzel Co. weighs in on the world's oldest snack food
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They're soft. They're dark. And they're undeniably handsome. We're talking about Bavarian style pretzels, the oldest snack food known to man and \\u2014 quite possibly \\u2014 the best food to enjoy alongside an ice cold beer.\\xa0
In this episode, we chat with Katie Wessel, the expert baker behind Milwaukee Pretzel Co., makers of the city's most traditional German pretzels. With her help, we dig into a bit of pretzel history, uncover the secrets to a truly great soft pretzel and glean insights into the ingenuity it takes to run a from-scratch pretzel bakery. And you can bet we have a ton of fun along the way.\\xa0