What a Girl Wants

Other than that, of course. Duh.

“In Cavaillon, there are seventeen bakers listed in the Pages Jaunes, but we had been told that one establishment was ahead of all the rest in terms of choice and excellence, a veritable Palais de pain. At Chez Auzet, so they said, the baking and eating of breads and pastries had been elevated to the status of a minor religion”. Peter Mayle

Where am I aiming for with the business? I want to bring a place like that to Regina. Or perhaps Victoria. The latter may be easier than the former but I won’t say no to a challenge!

So what drives me, what would I like to see in a Boulangerie~Pâtisserie? I think Peter Mayle covers it quite well describing that shop in Cavaillon:

“There are chairs and marble topped tables along one wall where you can have coffee and a croissant still glowing from the warm breath of the oven. Posters by local artists, photographs, and mementos share wall space with shelves line with bottles of champagnes, pots of homemade jams and syrups, baskets of almond biscuits, flasks of truffle scented olive oil.
And then there’s the bread – a panorama of bread, stretching for perhaps twenty feet behind the counter, bread arranged according to type and size, varying in color from pale gold to a deep chocolate brown, a display as tanned and tightly packed as tows of sunbathers on a Riviera beach”.

I have enjoyed everythingthat Peter Mayle has written, and for a quick little trip in the joys of bread and baking give a read to Confessions of a French Baker.

Yeah, there are other things in life that I want but we’re just talking business here, ‘k?