You won t find wimpy, white sticks of fluff here.
Customers stream into the store from the elegant shopping street.
Once, Cherche-Midi was a marketplace, like Rue Mouffetard. These days, the neighbors include Armani and Cartier. The baker says his loaf is the bread brought here by the Romans, the sustenance that the fields of wheat still surrounding Paris were meant to produce. Before then, the thin, pale loaf leavened with brewer s yeast was well-liked, though no more so than any of the other traditional breads boulangeries offered. The Nazis rationed bread, and, because bleaching flour was costly, white loaves became hardest to find.