On 2012-05-18 21:23:13 +0000, Nancy2 said:

> 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.

Her point didn't factor in convenience. Hell if it did WE'D be buying
fresh bread daily.

I saw a show about Beirut a number of years ago and how the bakeries
simply HAD to go back to work while things were still screwed up. And
people would make these "serpentine" runs to get bread, frequently
without money.