Glassell Park’s Bub & Grandma’s: where bread becomes art

Glassell Park – There was a time when bread in Los Angeles was a failed notion, an appetite killer offered to occupy our attention while the kitchen fiddled with the meal that was the point of the visit. It came with a rectangle of butter-like substance that, in theory, made the bread a tad more palatable. Restaurant bread and butter was Muzak for the mouth, bland and barely noticeable. And then…the world changed.

Nancy Silverton opened her La Brea Bakery, moving Los Angeles from Wonder Bread to Parisian baguettes. Hans Rockenwagner gave up on sit-down for grab-and-go. Locals became obsessed with pastry from Lodge Bread, Clark Street, Gjusta…and on the Eastside, Bub and Grandma’s , the creation of advertising copywriter Andy Kadin, who got his start getting up at 4 am to bake in his h