The Bread tour or Tour de Pain

It is no secret that bread is taken very seriously in France.

In the beginning b tried to eat baguette with my Mexican dinner. It didn't go well.

Within 3 minutes, on foot, of my apartment there are 4 bakeries. If you extend that to 8 minutes you can add 7 more. And we're talking full order bakeries. 20 different types of bread plus miles of dreamy desserts.

Everyone gets bread every 2-3 days - because that is how long bread lasts here without preservatives. There is a square bread that with preservatives that (creepily enough) lasts for weeks called Pain de Mie - it's like the vache qui ris of the bread world, that is to say, everyone loves it because it makes life easier, but it has no taste or nutritional value.

I have tried all the bread at our favorite bakery


baguette
baguette tradition
banette
d'avoine
avec le grains de sesame
multi-cereal
de la foret noire
charpentier
aux lardons
au fromage
d'automne

all that translates to "a freaking lot of bread"




This is my new favorite. It was so good I forgot what it was called.