On May 18, 7:45*pm, (Steve Pope) wrote:
> 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

You must live in an urban area, not suburban.

N.