Looking Back at Elbow Bread

Chef Zoë Kanan is serving up nostalgia like you’ve never seen it before.

The best pastries at Elbow Bread, a new-ish bakery on the Lower East Side, are nothing like a pastry at all. At least, not in the conventional sense. Pastries as we know and love them right now are buttery, flaky, and usually, they’re sweet. You could also argue that some of the city’s best baked goods are vanguards of innovation (see: laminated baguett…