Ancient bread (was Re: [Sca-cooks] FW:request for recipe(s))
Randy Goldberg MD
goldberg at bestweb.net
Thu Mar 21 20:52:57 PST 2002
> Aye. Even so, every time I opine at Seder that the "bread of
affliction" of
> our ancestors probably resembled pita more than modern matzot, my
father
> gives me a dirty look. Practically part of the family ritual now,
much like
> my brother delivering the Four Questions and Dad beginning the answer
with
> "Funny you should ask!"
Less like "pita" as we know it in the US, probably something more like a
lavash (a middle-eastern flat bread that's very thin, essentially the
predecessor of the ubiquitous and nasty "wrap").
Avraham
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