This coming Friday is National Biscuit Day. In the Southern United States, the term biscuit typically brings to mind soft, fluffy buttermilk biscuits covered in gravy or slathered with butter. But in other parts of the English-speaking world, the term biscuit refers to what we might call a cookie or a cracker. So why the difference, and what is a biscuit? Biscuits can be traced back at least to ancient Rome. The word biscuit derives from the…
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