Samuel Fromartz made his way to his current standing as one of Washington’s leading self-described “bread nerds” by a circuitous route. His first job, in 1985, was for Reuters, the news agency, for which he wrote the news ticker that flickers above the main concourse of Grand Central Terminal in New York City, before moving into broader business journalism for the agency. In 1997 he left Reuters to go freelance, but in 2008 a magazine for which he’d done steady work “wouldn’t be needing my services anymore” thanks to the crash of that same year. He turned to a friend who was about to start a travel magazine — “A travel magazine in a near depression, the worst since the 1930s, when airline seats were going begging? I didn’t ask” — and when she wondered if he had any story ideas, he wasted no time:
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