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Paximadia: Cretan Twice-Baked Bread
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Paximadia: Cretan Twice-Baked Bread

By Diana Farr Louis

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Dec 02, 2009
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Breaking apart the dried barley loaves at To Manna. Photograph by Diana Farr Louis

MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH PAXIMADIA did not begin until I had lived in Greece for 25 years. In all that time I had never encountered the thick, rock-hard, twice-baked hunk of whole-grain bread that goes by that name. Then in 1997, when I started to visit Crete to find recipes an…

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