Thursday, March 4, 2010


"Disadvantaged as they now were, the Gironpans nonetheless baked on. They turned to Matzoh, the most savory and pungeant of all the Jacobreads, whose apron was now emblazoned with with the motto, "Let us bake the rich to nourish the poor." In early April, the Gironpan Multigrain-Elie Gordita denounced Matzoh to his fellow patissiers...Breadespierre [claimed that] Gordita had "exhaled the poison of an impure sourdough" [and] cautioned the Jacobreads against any pastries that would only play into their enemies' greasy hands..."
-Fatal Patisserie: Breadespierre and the French Revolution, Ruth Scone

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