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You may think there isn't much to parchment paper, and we wouldn't blame you. It's barely more than a roll of regular paper. Yes, there's a shiny side, but still, it's nothing fancy or elaborate, and ...

Parchment paper has a long history – so long, in fact, it's difficult for experts to nail down the exact time it was first invented. Before the product we know today, animal skins were used for ...