"Steve Pope" > wrote in message
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> 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

Do you live in the city? Precious few bakeries out here in the 'burbs.