Lithuanian Black Bread

The blackest rye breads of Eastern Europe come from farther afield than Poland, the most famous coming from the Baltic states. But with practically every other bakery in Eastern Poland selling a chleb Litewski, Lithuanian black bread, it is arguably a part of the Polish bakery canon. This unique rye loaf’s presence in the Polish bakery world makes sense: The exchange between the two countries is hardly negligible. There have been long periods of history when the ever-flexible borders meant