Nancy2 > wrote:

>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.

How unusual then that I have have a bakery three minutes walk away
from my house, another one 0.8 miles away.

That's not counting Mexican bakeries which are all over the place.

Conversely, one could live in the middle of nowhere in France and
not be near a bakery. So I think it's more of an urban vs. rural
thing, then it is a deficiency of the U.S. (although there is also
some of that going on).



Steve