Posts Tagged ‘Bakery’

California Dreaming…Tartine

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011

Whilst doing some San Francisco research a couple of months ago, the missus sent me a link to this set of photos on The Selby blog featuring a bakery called Tartine. The minute I saw the pictures of the breads, pasties and all those other good things, we knew we had to pay them a visit.

After doing a bit more digging, I found this super inspiring video on the accompanying Tartine bread site.

Tartine Bread from 4SP Films on Vimeo.

I’m not sure about all that accordion playing, but I. CAN. NOT. WAIT. TO. TRY. THAT. BREAD.

Hmmmmmmm.

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Bonne Année

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Happy New Year from Hand To Mouth. Hope you all had a good one.

I had the good fortune to be in Cornwall for Christmas, and then Paris for New Years. Good food was eaten accross the festive period, more on this in subsequent posts, but first of all something for the bread geeks out there.

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Whilst in Paris I made a pilgrimage to Poilâne. It may not be a familiar name, but if you love good bread it should be. It’s a bakery in Saint-Germain, and makes the most insanely tasty ‘miche’ or traditional French sourdough loaves. Set up by Pierre Poilâne, a young baker from Normandy in 1932, the shop has been knocking out these beautiful large round loaves ever since to Parisians hungry for something a bit more interesting than the regular baguette.

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