Saturday, October 10, 2026

🎨 Culture

Everyone Has an Opinion on Bread

The baguette is regulated: a baguette de tradition may contain only flour, water, salt and yeast, and must be made on the premises. French people have a preferred bakery and will walk past three others to reach it.

Buy bread from three different bakeries this fortnight and pick one. Having a bakery is a small but real form of belonging somewhere.

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