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FLATBREAD MONTH AT TASTYBLE
A Flatbread Story Without the Flatbread
I thought finding Japan’s version of flatbread would be simple. It wasn’t.
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Not long after last month’s theme, “potatoes,” was settled, this month’s theme was already decided too.
Out of all the possibilities, we chose flatbread.
It wasn’t a food I was very familiar with, so I did a little research. I learned that flatbread is made by mixing flour with salt and water, kneading the dough, flattening it, and cooking it.
Surely Japan must have something similar.
That was what I thought, and without giving it much more thought, I said “yes.”
But it turned out not to be that simple.
For the next month, I kept wrestling with flatbread. For something so flat, it gave me an awful lot to think about.
Searching for Japan’s Flatbread
The ingredients were so simple that I thought I’d find an answer quickly. I went to the library…
