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adrian_turtleI know how to bake good bread, but I usually don't want to bother. I'll bake cakes or cookies to share with people, or maybe a big braided challah (which feels almost like cake, though there's only 3 tablespoons of honey in so much bread I'm not sure it will fit in my new daypack without squashing.) But if I don't have the energy or foresight to bake, which is most of the time, the local options are a little peculiar.
There are 2 supermarkets in town. They both sell packaged, pre-sliced, bread from companies like Pepperidge Farm. I can toast it in the oven and get something edible, if not particularly interesting. Untoasted, as for sandwiches I take for work, I regard it with even less interest. A sandwich made on that kind of cold toast might be interesting, but not in the good sense of interesting. Both supermarkets have little bakeries in the store. Presumably the smell of baking draws people into the store and is good for business. It might cheer up the workers, as well. That would be nice. They certainly aren't accomplishing anything useful in terms of making food. They sell something that looks like fresh bread...but it just does not have the bread nature. I'd rather eat paper with butter and jam. (Well, if the paper does not have a high clay content. Otherwise it would just be disgusting.)
There are 2 nice bakeries in East Arlington for sweets, but not for bread. They might occasionally try to bake bread, but it always comes out sweet...I guess they just can't help themselves. I thought I had to go to Cambridge or Lexington to buy good bread that wasn't sweet. As it happens, the middle eastern grocery downstairs sells excellent bread. I've been using it more generally than I used to think of using pita breads, partly because it's such good bread, and partly because it's easier for me to get than crusty breads of good quality. It feels like reasonably fresh bread, not fresh out of the oven, but like it was made in the morningthey don't make it here. They don't even make it in Boston and bring it over. It's from Ville St Laurent, in Quebec. And this is what I eat when I don't have the energy to go all the way to Cambridge.
There are 2 supermarkets in town. They both sell packaged, pre-sliced, bread from companies like Pepperidge Farm. I can toast it in the oven and get something edible, if not particularly interesting. Untoasted, as for sandwiches I take for work, I regard it with even less interest. A sandwich made on that kind of cold toast might be interesting, but not in the good sense of interesting. Both supermarkets have little bakeries in the store. Presumably the smell of baking draws people into the store and is good for business. It might cheer up the workers, as well. That would be nice. They certainly aren't accomplishing anything useful in terms of making food. They sell something that looks like fresh bread...but it just does not have the bread nature. I'd rather eat paper with butter and jam. (Well, if the paper does not have a high clay content. Otherwise it would just be disgusting.)
There are 2 nice bakeries in East Arlington for sweets, but not for bread. They might occasionally try to bake bread, but it always comes out sweet...I guess they just can't help themselves. I thought I had to go to Cambridge or Lexington to buy good bread that wasn't sweet. As it happens, the middle eastern grocery downstairs sells excellent bread. I've been using it more generally than I used to think of using pita breads, partly because it's such good bread, and partly because it's easier for me to get than crusty breads of good quality. It feels like reasonably fresh bread, not fresh out of the oven, but like it was made in the morningthey don't make it here. They don't even make it in Boston and bring it over. It's from Ville St Laurent, in Quebec. And this is what I eat when I don't have the energy to go all the way to Cambridge.
