No More Rye Bread from Finland

My mom has been shipping me rye bread for the last, oh 24 years, from Finland because I can't get it here. If you, Americans, think that pumpernickel or local "rye bread" is rye bread, you are sadly mistaken. You must have the real thing. Thanks to my mom and other relatives and friends who come to visit, they always bring me a loaf or two or three or...

Then I started noticing that my Floridian friend Paivi advertised on Facebook that she was putting her bread order in. What bread? What? So I asked her what bread was she talking about. So she told me, and today I received a package of 5 bags of rye bread. I can't wait to taste it and eat it and savor it and smell it (well, my whole office smells like rye). I should go buy butter so I could eat it now.

Paivi also told me about another bakery in New York that also bakes rye bread. A Finn, of course, who owns the "Nordic Breads" company. I will place my next order with him and then I can compare.

But it looks like right now that I will no longer need any of my mom's or friend's or relatives' services. No more lugging bread to me from Finland. The bread era is over at the Larsen household.

www.skabakery.com

www.nordicbreads.com