Since Passover is quickly approaching (it starts Monday at sundown!) The husband and I decided to end on a positive note-with Paris' best baguette, the winner of "le Grand Prix de la baguette" 2010. We took the train 20 minutes early Sunday morning to
Le Grenier à Pain near Métro Abesses (near Montmartre) which happens to be the stop deepest underground in the Paris transport system. Many stairs later and a few blocks walk past throngs of people selling laurel/palm for Palm Sunday, we reached the promissed land, also known as 38, rue des Abesses in the 18e. We bought two of boulanger Djibril Bodian's delicious baguettes, only 1.5 of which made it home ;) We couldn't let a warm baguette go to waste, now could we?
Crunchy on the outside, doughy on the inside, excellent texture, a faint taste of nutty yeastiness, these are by far the best baguettes I have tasted so far.
We tried it with nutella, fresh goat cheese (the mild, sweet kind, not the aged, sharp kind, more akin to fromage frais), and raspberry jam. Winner.
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