We called it light bread. Others called it white bread. Regardless of what it was called, in my hometown of Ashdown, Arkansas and most of the rest of the South it was the foundation of the Southern food pyramid.
And it was found aplenty at our home on Beech Street. You never knew when company might come.
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By John Moore
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