{"id":79256,"date":"2026-09-28T07:55:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T12:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/28\/how-a-60-loaf-of-rye-bread-went-viral-in-new-york-city-its-a-conversation-piece\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T07:55:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T12:55:39","slug":"how-a-60-loaf-of-rye-bread-went-viral-in-new-york-city-its-a-conversation-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/28\/how-a-60-loaf-of-rye-bread-went-viral-in-new-york-city-its-a-conversation-piece\/","title":{"rendered":"How a $60 loaf of rye bread went viral in New York City: \u2018It\u2019s a conversation piece\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bread experts weigh in on whether the rye sourdough that bakers \u2018feed every day\u2019 is worth that much<\/p>\n<p>A loaf of bread has become New York City\u2019s latest viral hit and, somehow, status symbol.<\/p>\n<p>At Rye, the first US outpost of Austrian bakery Martin Auer, a 3.3lb loaf of 100% rye sourdough sells for $60 in SoHo. Made with just water, flour, salt and time, the bread has attracted the kind of attention once reserved for rainbow bagels, cronuts and skyscraper milkshakes. Which begs the inevitable question \u2013 is it actually worth that much?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/28\/rye-bread-viral-new-york-city\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bread experts weigh in on whether the rye sourdough that bakers \u2018feed every day\u2019 is worth that much A loaf of bread has become New York City\u2019s latest viral hit and, somehow, status symbol. At Rye, the first US outpost of Austrian bakery Martin Auer, a 3.3lb loaf of 100% rye sourdough sells for $60 &#8230; <a title=\"How a $60 loaf of rye bread went viral in New York City: \u2018It\u2019s a conversation piece\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/28\/how-a-60-loaf-of-rye-bread-went-viral-in-new-york-city-its-a-conversation-piece\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How a $60 loaf of rye bread went viral in New York City: \u2018It\u2019s a conversation piece\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}