the beginning ...

The four I love most will have quickly discarded any discomfiting notion they are among the five alluded to above and be ready to discover what I mean to say about bread and life and the center of the world.

If France has a soul, it is probably a boulangerie. And in every boulangerie in the country, among the local specialties, the round and oblong loaves, the whites and the whole grains, the brioches and the bâtards, only the baguette goes without saying. Among the various and sundry pains de campagne, only the baguette is Parisian. Which, as I promised, brings us to the center of the world. La baguette parisienne ... baguette magique, baguette du chef d'orchestre, baguette à mener le monde. Soul and heart.

bread and life ... in paris. à suivre ...


boulangerie ... bakery; baguette magique ... magic wand; baguette du chef d'orchestre ... conductor's baton; baguette à mener le monde ... a scepter to lead the world; à suivre ... more to come