French Bakery

                     

Going to the boulangerie is a daily habit for most French people, the baguettes they buy today rarely last until tomorrow. The good bakeries are easy to locate by viewing which one has the longest line before mealtimes, trust me the longer the line the better the taste. The hardest part for me is (trying not to drool while I wait...) to simply buy a baguette and not one of the thousand little temptations waving their hands at me! I have enclosed a partial list from the blackboard of the daily pastries...I do not want you to lick the screen... The list includes: pies, golden puff pastries filled with cream, cakes with strawberries and raspberries, and everything imaginable in the land of d-e-l-i-c-i-o-u-s!

                     

Many baguettes fill the baskets, a variety of sorts, where do you break bread?

photos: a French Bakery where the little cakes took up most of my time. I would have added a photo if I hadn't devoured them. Pass your mouse over the photos than stop to read a hidden message, each day there is a detour there for you.

Comments

[my backyard]

this post has me salivating

[my backyard]

this post has me salivating

[Carol]

Hmmm delicieux!

[gracie]

Just visiting with you, here, is a daily communion. Dear Corey, thank you for sharing the bread of your soul and the wine of your love with us.

[swampgrrl]

these baguettes looke divine.
all we have is 'au bon pain' here in new york/new jersey metropolitan area.

my mouth is watering....

[ParisBreakfasts]

Am I too late to join this party? I love this POST!!!!!!!!!! shoe is ont the other foot I guess...feel very hungry now...

[diana]

fabulous pictures... pass the napkin please... excess drooling here !

[AnnieElf]

Must mental drooling going on. **sigh**

[Colette]

Ah!
My favorites: palmiers, brioches, and ficelle.

I am so hungry after reading this post.

Going to eat something!

xox

[Julie]

Wish I were there!

[herhimnbryn]

PS that should be MANAGES front of house. Although I believe 'manges" = eat in French? :)
I doubt she does eat much of their product she is elegantly slim and so well groomed....so French.

[herhimnbryn]

There is a French bakery 27km away from us. The couple that own it are French. He bakes , she manges front of house. IT IS WORTH drivng there on a Sunday morning to sit outside and consume flakey croissants and a huge bowl of cafe au lait.
And then ( note mental process here), because we ahve driven there, I feel I HAVE to buy some of the jewels that are the cakes and pastries.
Thankyou C. Will have to visit again this w/e.

[la vie en rose]

mmmm...delicious...

[cruststation]

I would love to live in France, what a lovely lifestyle to have fresh baked bread daily. The streets must smell delicious!

[Kit]

Delicious - there is nothing like the real thing. I'd love to find that just down the road from us when I woke up one morning.

[Penny]

I just ate lunch but oh my!! If taste is in the eye of the beholder I'm having a feast right now!

[Sacred Art of Living]

When I lived in Paris for a few months I regularly failed at resisting temptation, those beautiful custard-filled temptations beckoning me with their yummyness. Yet I didn't gain any weight because I walked everywhere! Love the photos.
Christine

[Veronica TM]

How delicious! It reminds me of Argentina, where I grew up. Every weekend our parents would drop us off at our grandparents' and I remember my grandpa going to the bakery {panaderia} in the morning, before beakfast, nothing like the taste of fresh bread and butter spread by my grandma.

[simple me]

Oh! you made me long for one of those wonderful baguettes...and the most gorgeous warm croisant...ummmmmm!
You took me back to my brief staying in Paris.

[Brother Mathew]

Hey babe put a little passion on your bread board. Roll out for something other than a pay check. Pleasure eats are the sweet. Get in line.

[Amber]

Gosh! I wish we had this bit of Frenchness in America! That was one of the very best parts, for Kory and I. And you slow down to go buy your bread. It is real food. It is a sensual experience, even. *sigh*

:)

[Lisa(oceandreamer)]

oh my, so sad there isn't smella-cyberspace to take in whiffs of all that! Our one time in France my husband learned two phrases in french "two baguettes please" and "a glass of wine pleae". lol! My brother/sil lived in Mouries so we'd get fresh bread every night for dinner from the village. I adore photos that give a sense of the area you live in.
XOXO

[stephanie s]

yep, going to be thinking of french bakeries all day long. thanks! i think...

[snowsparkle]

corey, i like your kind of communion. the photos bring back memories of my visit to paris 32 years ago. the roof of my mouth grew raw from eating too much deliciously crusty bread. your post is enticing me to return again.

[susanna]

Mmmm...I can almost smell the bread!

[berrie]

http://berriesplace.squarespace.com/journal/2006/9/9/hi-all.html

here is a link to the future french yummy spot:)

[berrie]

did I tell you that I will be able to enjoy a baguette here? Yes! here in the northwoods of wisconsin usa (a French bakery) is opening soon* who would have ever thought it! xoxo

p.s.

[Carrie Sommer]

Mmmm. This brings back fond memories: when I was 10, we lived in Paris for about 9 months (my dad worked for Honeywell & was transferred for a year). Every morning, my mother sent me out to the corner bakery for a baguette.

"Un baguette sil vou plat" - spelling is way off, I'm sure. I had to start buying two baguettes after a while, because you can't go very far with a warm baguette in your arms...

[susan@artstream]

argh! baugette! not available today here! argh! i want one! stop with the charlottes! oooh sigh. we are all trying to bite our screens...:-)
lovely photos and delightful secret messages...yum!

[Rochelle]

Hi-
I have never commented on your blog but today I felt that I absolutly MUST. You see, I lived for a year in Nantes, then Beg Meil, near Quimper, almost 11 years ago. The day I left France I felt as if I was leaving the place where I truly belonged and wanted to be, forever. Seeing your photos of the markets, the broad sweeping views and the little details of my adopted country, for I am amercaine through and through, always makes me catch my breath and tingle all over. I love knowing that this place still exists as I go through my days, waiting patiently to return to the place I love best.
Thank you,
Rochelle McGee

[meredith]

I am back to say that hiding messages in the photos is very fun!

[Jeanne]

What a lucky lady you are having slices of Paradise fresh daily and a heart soaring from so much joy!
Love you
Jeanne ^j^

[Nancy]

Ah, that was my favorite part of our Paris visits! We would walk the streets and just drool at the window displays! I begged him to just let's "window eat" one evening....stroll the street and buy dinner from whatever windows held the most tempting displays. We too had trouble resisting all of the wonderful treats..we took a bag of wine, yummy sandwiches and assorted tarts and pastries for an early twilight picnic beneath the Eiffel Tower. It was the most romantic thing we have ever done......thanks for the memory!
p.s. I brought bread back to the states to give to my daughter and she devoured a whole loaf the first evening...and she was a teeny little thing!

[candy]

Have I told you lately how much I love this place, this blog of yours? I find such peace and joy and simplicity and complexity here. Thank you.

[Shannon]

I'm trying really REALLY hard not to lick the screen right now.

[louise]

The land of d-e-l-i-c-i-o-u-s it certainly is. Mouth watering! That bread looks really, really good.
Cheers, LJ

[miss*R]

If I lived in France - everyone would know I am not a french woman, because if I ate all those delicious breads & pastries - I would get fat and we all know that french women don't get fat, or so they say.
I love the baskets that the bread is kept in!

[Gina]

I'm so hungry, now.

[Linda]

I love bread but not like my husband. He can take one bite of some baguette that looks perfectly good to me and know that it is mass produced. He had driven all over the area around our house trying to find some good bread. He says it is best in Paris. He will also eat bread if it is two days old and can be used as a hammer it's so hard. I only like it if it is freshly baked and soft when you bite through that crusty exterior.

[meredith]

A very delicious part of life in France.