US EditionBritish Baker Criticizes Mexican Bread, and Faces a Predictable Backlash
Richard Hart apologized after backlash over his remarks dismissing Mexican bread culture and flour, sparking debate about gentrification and cultural respect in Mexico City.
- This month, clips of Richard Hart's Pop Foodie Radio remarks resurfaced online, showing him disparage everyday Mexican breads and rolls, provoking widespread criticism.
- Contextualizing the uproar, residents cite gentrification and foreign-run businesses, with Green Rhino bakery opening in June 2025 and its prices far above neighborhood panaderías.
- Hart, a James Beard Award winner, built his reputation at Tartine and Hart Bageri, criticizing Mexican flour and describing pan dulce as more pastry-like than traditional bread.
- As the backlash grew, Hart apologized on Instagram and in Mexican media, promising `to listen more and speak less` while social media defended bolillos and criticized his remarks as arrogant.
- Amid the debate, commentators highlighted that Mexico has more than 600 kinds of bread, with Rodrigo Sierra noting pan de muerto and Tania Medina accusing Hart of `stomping` on Mexico's panaderías.
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British Baker Sparks Outrage After Calling Mexican Bread ‘Ugly’ and ‘Pretty Cheap’
Richard Hart, who is the co-founder of the Green Rhino bakery in Mexico City, apologized after comments he made about Mexican bread resurfacedGetty Stock Images Stock photo of bolillo rollsNEED TO KNOWBritish baker Richard Hart has apologized after comments he made about Mexican bread this past April resurfacedThe baker is the co-founder of the Green Rhino bakery in Mexico CityHart, whose Instagram account is currently private, apologized on the…
When Araceli Maldonado, a Mexican baker in London, read on Instagram that British Richard Hart had said that there was no bread culture in Mexico, he felt that “his soul hurt.” On his last trip to his country, he decided to visit the bakery opened by the chef in the heart of Rome, one of the most gentrified neighborhoods in the Mexican capital. “I said: ‘wow, a Briton, to see what this person is doing in Mexico’. I tried one of his breads, a gar…
British baker criticizes Mexican bread, and faces a predictable backlash
A British celebrity baker who built his career on artisanal sourdough has angered many Mexicans by dismissing their bread as “ugly” and lacking in nuance, then scrambling to apologize from the city where he now lives and works. Richard Hart, a London-born baker and co-founder of Green Rhino bakery in Mexico City’s trendy Roma Norte neighborhood, questioned Mexico’s bread-making traditions during an interview on the Danish podcast Pop Foodie Radi…
Recently, British chef Richard Hart was criticized for a series of comments he made about what he believed to be Mexican bread. Fortunately, these statements, however inopportune, can serve as a pretext to reflect on our gastronomy, learn a little history of Mexican bread and spread some of the most emblematic CDMX bakeries in the capital. For those who do not have it on the radar, Hart is a British chef, of international stature, who opened in …
British baker’s critique of Mexican bread triggers outrage
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In Mexico, it is believed that the penalties with bread are less, and perhaps that is why there is practically one bread for every occasion... even for the scare, which is popularly believed to be cured with a ball, the traditional white bread, similar to an American football that is on every table in the country. That’s why it was enough for British baker Richard Hart’s criticisms of the national bread to spark the controversy. Hart, known for …
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