Celebration Breads from around the World

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By John Walters on Monday, December 8, 2003.
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Almost every culture around the world uses bread to mark special holidays and personal milestones. Betsy Oppenneer saw that many of these traditional recipes were disappearing, so she?s captured them in her new book, Celebration Breads: Recipes, Tales, and Traditions. She joins John to talk about the breads and the stories behind their creation.

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