With more than 1,300 boulangeries and a profound baking culture, Paris has always been an awesome place for your morning pain au chocolat or baguette.
But the lovable boulangerie de quartier might rely on additives and premixes.
“The new-concept bakeries have a short range of products, a disruptive approach and strong personalities,” said Christophe Vasseur, whose bakery, Du Pain et des Idées, by the Canal St.-Martin, helped kick-start the artisanal bread movement more than two decades ago.
Now, tattooed bakers are “rock stars,” as the newspaper Le Figaro called them.
A baguette de tradition at the following bakeries costs just over 1 euro, and a loaf of bread is usually priced at €10 to €15, or $11 to $16, per kilo (just over two pounds).
Persons:
”, Christophe Vasseur, Pain, Martin, Le Figaro, Apollonia Poilâne
Organizations:
Olympics
Locations:
Paris, London