On May 18, 11:32*am, gtr > wrote:
> Relating this discussion to my food-preservationist wife she offers her
> opinions on every facet. *Living in palm desert she says it doesn't
> make any difference what you do with bread it dries out be the time you
> finish eating your sandwich. *Other physics screw you in the humidity
> of Costa Rica.
>
> "The way" of bread is to buy it fresh and eat it, citing the way folks
> make a daily run for tortillas in Mexico, French bread in France or
> Vietnam and sangak or barbari in Iran (or in Irvine/Yorba Linda!).
>
> Her point is well made: There is fresh bread and then there is everything else.

But her point is not well made here in the US, where the corner
market, bodega, or mom-n-pop store has long been missing from most
residential areas. It is not practical for many of us to go the store
multiple times a week when we have to drive there.

N.