Liz Lallak

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“Breaking Bread with the Past” by Liz Lallak

Submitted to Contest #220

---(SENSITIVE subject matter about the Holocaust) The foul odor is overwhelming and inescapable, and it is one of my earliest memories. The smell is indescribable, and it clings to my clothes and permeates the walls like an evil spirit guarding its territory. The putrid smell comes from the strange ingredients my grandmother Astrid uses in her family's secret bread recipe, which she keeps in a high cupboard out of reach. She sifts the fine powder from an old mason jar and grinds the harder bits down the garbage disposal to produc...

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