~ Cultural Heritage & Immigration Museum in the National Bread Museum ~

ETHNIC BAKERIES

Omaha, Nebraska has a city population of around a half million (& continually growing). With a surrounding community area of some local towns, and including Council Bluffs, Iowa, across the Missouri River, we're looking at around a million. With a list of over 100 bakeries throughout this area at this time (2024), we have a diversity that probably represents the mixed, cultural population of the country as well as anywhere else.

So one of the purposes of this Cultural Heritage & Immigration Museum is to help Americans with a multi-generational background in this country, to know something about the baking culture of their international neighbors. The reverse side of the coin is for the "old timers" to help the newcomers of the past half century to assimilate into our traditional way of life.

Food helps form a community, & to smell fresh baked goods is definitely a drawing card. So this page will provide a multi-national picture of diverse bakery foods around this home town of Omaha, & then fill in from beyond!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagel

https://www.britannica.com/topic/doughnut

The Bagel Bin
1215 S 119th St, Omaha, NE

The bagel is associated with the Jewish culture today, but the beginnings?

Polish Jews? Germans?

Eastern European Immigrants?

https://www.bagelfest.com/blog/the-bagels-unlikely-journey-from-eastern-european-peasant-food-to-global-icon (May 29, 2023)

https://historycooperative.org/origin-of-bagels/ (Aug. 23, 2023)

International Bakery
of Cakes & Doughnuts (Mexican)
Hanscom Park area: 1052 Park Ave Omaha, NE 68105

I was going north & almost missed the bakery, had I not turned to look back!

~ a grocery store sign along Park Ave. ~ The store & attached bakery are right in the middle of a huge, old neighborhood housing area.

1 of 3 International Bakeries in Omaha

The bakery is on the north side of the grocery store.

My take-away to see & taste ~ under $7.00!

At the time I was visiting, around 4 p.m., racks of "hot out of the oven" pastries & all sorts of baked goods were being rolled into the customer area! It was just as if you were in your own, or /Mom's /Grandma's kitchen as hot bread was coming out of the oven - only this smelled a bit sweeter😉. And it's why the longer, cheese-filled pastry never even made it out of the driveway! Oh, my😋. I figured they were preparing for what they knew was coming . . . a large after work crowd.

Hot out of the oven!

In time, more to come . . . . .
Italian, Lithuanian, French, Czech, Dutch, etc.
& then other ethnic representations from around the country.

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