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«Faire
du pain, ça s'apprend en deux jours, facilement. Mais
faire du bon pain, c'est l'art de toute une vie.»
Jean-Claude Mislanghe, instructor, Institut National de la Boulangerie, cited in Nouvel Obs, 22 June 1995
''Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread'', Pablo Neruda
Germans are known to call beer, << flussig brot >> (liquid bread), Fresh Loaf.com
http://wetternoise.be/fr/pain/moys/étranger.html
Every trip to the supermarket these days requires us to navigate what has become a truly treacherous landscape.
Michael Pollan, New York Times Magazine,
11 October 2009.
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter. Jonathan Swift, ''Famous Bread Quotes''
Where there's no law, there's no bread
Benjamin Franklin, 'Bread Quotes', Breadtopia
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety
Aesop, cited on sfbi.com
Give to
me the life I love,
Let the lave go by me,
Give the jolly heaven above
And the byway nigh me.
Bed in the bush with stars to see,
Bread I dip in the river -
There's the life for a man like me,
There's the life for ever.
R
L Stevenson, stanza 1, ''The Vagabond''
BOULANGERIE NORTH HEAD BAKERY
Closed temporarily-
BY WAY
OF INTRODUCTION;
Our bakery might well be described as a village bakery of French complexion, set in an English speaking community, the Island of Grand Manan. The key tools in production (kneader, oven and proofing devices) are French, recipes are metric and reflective of French-baking authors; preparation of doughs and baking take place in 'le fournil’. The selling of breads and other bakery goods occur in the shop, or ‘la boutique’. Ownership is by the propriety partnership of Martha Ballantyne and Richard Rice. General oversight is shared, but work and leadership in the two departments locates Martha in la boutique, and Richard in le fournil. The open secret to good French bread is simply expressed: good flour, water, salt and leaven, fermented properly. Lastly, bakery and home are in the one building.
