The concept dates back to the Middle Ages, when people ate soup or stew containing game or beans off of “trenchers,” flat tableware made out of bread—the staler, the better. Nowadays, bread bowls—especially the sourdough kind—are de rigueur all over San Francisco and at major lunch chains like Panera Bread.
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