Paximadia

Food writer Lynn Alley has a love affair with Greek cooking. One day she was invited to visit her friend Aimilia Manassakis, who is a native of Crete and now runs the Greek Village Restaurant in Carlsbad, California, to watch her bake homemade paximadia. Paximadia is a crunchy twice-baked bread rusk, affectionately known as Greek toast, created in Greek villages by rebaking bread in the residual dying heat of wood-fired ovens. While most Americans have never heard of paxima