For a while, I’ve been trying to brainstorm a creative endeavor for Mr. Pinault and I to undertake together. Something that utilizes his photography talents and my penchant for babbling about matters of little consequence. Something for which we shared a consuming passion. Something that already plays a convenient role in our domestic routine. And then one day it hit me: Bread.
We are fresh-bread fanatics. Unfortunately, though I sometimes do dig out the jar of instant yeast and attempt some home bread-baking, the lack of a professional bread oven yields middling results. And besides, since I arrive home at 7pm on weekdays, it would be impossible to bake bread for our 8pm dinner.
So, nearly everyday, one of us must grab a loaf to bring home. It’s a preoccupation of ours, this constant acquisition of bread. Since we eat simply — vegetables, salad, a stand-alone protein — no meal is complete without bread. It’s the canvas on which we spread cheese and jam. It is our staff of life. Sometimes, I think we could indeed live on bread alone.
Long story short: There are numerous bakeries in the Boston metro area, and we plan to blog about their bread. Surely everyone’s seen one of the millions of foods blogs out there, where a foodie will go to a restaurant, snap pictures of their meal, and write critical or glowing reviews about it. For example, eggsbaconchipsandbeans is devoted exclusively to writing about British breakfasts featuring, of course, eggs, bacon, french fries, and baked beans.
Why not bread? I’ve seen loads of blogs devoted to bread-baking, but I cannot find one devoted to bread eating. Granted, the attributes of good bread are harder to quantify than the attributes of an entire meal. And the adjectives used to describe bread are more elusive than those used to describe wine or cheese. But we will try!
Developing… to be continued…
