Monkey Bread at Lattof Farms comes out of the oven around 9:30AM on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. So what am I to fuel up on if I am leaving town on Monday morning? Chrissy at the farm stand tells me to try the Anadama Bread. She said it was perfect toasted with tomato and some mayo. Since I was picking up tomatoes and native corn I went for it.
It was still warm from the oven and it never made it into a tomato sandwich. We ate the whole thing on our drive to Wayland. Lattof Anadama seems to crank up the mollases and tone down the cornmeal to make something that is great torn off and stuffed in the pie hole all by itself.
Fun Fact: Anadama Bread has its own wiki page. Does anyone believe the origin of the name story on that page? Sounds a tad hokey:
“A fisherman, angry with his wife, Anna, for serving him nothing but cornmeal and molasses, one day adds flour and yeast to his porridge and eats the resultant bread, while cursing, ‘Anna, damn her.'”
Next week my own tomatoes will be coming off the vine and they are going to find a home between two slices of this bread with some Hellman’s. (I know not using Cains is Cape Ann sacrilege but I spent too much time in the midwest to shake my addiction to Hellman’s)
Sorry, no photos, I ate it.
[edit] Forgot to say where Lattof farm is. You know when you go by the “new” Rockport police station and you are putting your car in neutral so you can coast all the way to Dock Square? Lattoff farm stand is on the left hand side as you start down the hill to five corners.
Good Morning Gloucester 
I worked at the anadama bread factory in rockport from 1977-83. But it was not making bread. The factory that was there at that time was TADCO MFG. When I worked in the diecutting dept. Sometimes there was a lot of vibration when all the presses were running. Flour would fall from the ceiling like snow. I think it may be a machine shop now. it’s located behind the Whistlestop mall behind the Train tracks. I LOVE ANADAMA TOAST WITH JUST MARGARINE.
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Melissa Smith Abbott, the granddaughter of the woman who founded the Anadama Bread Bakery in Rockport, just wrote a book about the bakery which includes the recipe and history. The book will be available any day now and you can read all about it on her web site: http://www.anadamabreadbook.com/
The book is absolutely beautiful (if I do say so myself.) It is a real slice of Cape Ann history! It contains the history of and recipes from The Blacksmith Shop Restaurant, The Easterly Inn, The Faraday Inn, The Cable House B&B and the Anadama Bakery.
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Thank you for the link to the Anadama Bread Book. I just leafed through some pages on-line and I need to get myself a copy.
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You’re welcome. Nice looking book, isn’t it? ;o)
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I just discovered that Amazon has put up a page for it, too: http://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Three-Melissas-Authentic-Original/dp/1450722156
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It was not at Toad Hall but I told them all about it. They have to carry the book.
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They haven’t arrived yet but Melissa tells me she expects them any day. I expect Toad Hall will carry them, I don’t know but they will definitely be at The Building Center Gift Shop and Cape Ann Museum Gift Shop.
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Hi, It’s official 🙂 Not only is the book available on Amazon.com but I got my 1st shipment today and I will be delivering copies to: Harbor Loop Gifts at the Building Center, The Bookstore on Main St., Gloucester, Toad Hall on Main St., Rockport, The Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, and The General Store at Gloucester House Restaurant. Thanks for the interest.
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Hey Paul, it is me Chrissy from Lattof’s! Did I forget to mention that you can ONLY use Hellmann”s mayo on that sandwich? That is too good for Cains! I am so glad that you enjoyed the bread!
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