I thought this was hilarious!
"Impossible! Bakers in France are threatening to turn off their ovens over soaring electricity costs ...
It’s une catastrophe for Parisian pro-carbers, especially coming on the heels of UNESCO’s elevation of the baguette as an “Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity” last fall ...
Cliché no more (see video above, with a shout-out to Bernard Génial, who comments, “As a french dude, this is an accurate depiction of my everyday life”), Paris’s loftiest loaves basked in the glory. But Robert Zaretsy reduced the fine details of the announcement to crumbs in an upper-crusty Washington Post commentary late last year.
The vast majority of the 6 billion baguettes sold in Paris each year are actually “baguettes de pain,” he explains, which have more in common with—gasp—the Big Mac than the real deal: the “baguette de tradition” made only with levain (sourdough starter).
The result: The industrialization of the revered baguette—“transforming le bon pain into le faux pain.”"
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