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Secrets of rye bread and refried beans

Erica Marcus

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Marcus has covered food for Newsday since 1998.

Do you know of any bakeries that bake their rye breads (and pumpernickels) with crispy crusts? We hardly ever buy these breads because they usually seem so underbaked. -- Joseph Spiegel, Babylon

 

This innocent question unleashed in me a torrent of rye-bread rage. I grew up in a family where crisp crusts were an article of faith. My father's feeling was that a crust was crisp enough...

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