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Rye bread of the Cabrera Alta

Encinedo, La Cabrera, León

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Rye bread of the Cabrera Alta

Food and drink · Encinedo, La Cabrera, León

Image of Encinedo, not of the place itself.

Rye was for centuries the only cereal that thrived in these slate valleys: it gave the comarca its dark, dense bread and its straw thatched the barns, closing a cycle that sustained life in La Cabrera.

Photo: Antramir (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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