Bread...

Fern is a real baker of all things including bread and I'm surprised that this is her first loaf of sourdough. Looks fabulous but I won't be able to taste it since she lives in Victoria. Grace is a long time expert in sourdough and I'm now making a formal request for a loaf the first time we can all get together again.

Fern's first sourdough loaf

And there was quite an article in The Sun today about how France is getting back to bread during the pandemic. The loaves are larger so keep a little longer. When we first started going to France, people went out for bread twice a day... morning and for dinner. As "foreigners" we had to be careful they didn't give us bread from the morning. Bakeries baked twice a day. We got so we could kind of tell. And until 1986, the government regulated the price. I didn't know that but I do remember in 1972 the price for a baguette was the equivalent of 12 cents. Add a bottle of vin ordinarie and a round of camembert and you had lunch for a buck.