My daddy is a baker!

A miniclip promoting the baking profession produced by Supamonks Studio in Arcueil, France. A bit misleading (no baker I know uses a rolling pin to shape a boule) but fun and very French (see the whiskered guy dipping his hand in his morning "café au lait" for lack of a "tartine")...

Team USA Wins First Place at the 2010 Louis Lesaffre Cup

For more info, check out my baker friends Gerry and Larry's blog, Tree-Top Baking. They were in Vegas and can tell you more than I could about this victory. Hurray for Team USA!

Best Baguette Prize 2010 awarded in Paris...

...and the winner is Djibril Bodian from Le Grenier à pain - Abbesses. Check out this post on In Transit, the New York Times travel blog.

Serious Home Baker Gets the Call...

(photo reproduced with Sam Fromartz' kind authorization)

...and rises to the challenge. Check out this great story!

Doesn't this take the cake?

Click on the picture to see the whole collection. Doesn't your jaw drop when you look at the prices (especially when you remember it is given in British pounds)? So that a pair of slippers would actually set you back $103 at today's exchange rate and, listen to this, most of them are sold out!!!!!!!!! Well, no, you can still get the brown ones or else the tiny ones for your tots. Those are a bargain at $36. My Mom taught me to always look at the positive. So, here it is: I just found a lucrative outlet for my surplus starter! :-)

And since we are talking wearable bread, I might as well let you sneak a look at the new line of jewelry my youngest granddaughter (she just turned three) is now promoting to the immense satisfaction and admiration of her twin brother and her four-year old sister.

When a bakery is about more than bread...

For those of you who may have difficulty viewing what comes after the ad, please click here to go to the original post on the ABC News website.

Baguettes win in Colebrook, New Hampshire

Be sure to check out this story in today's New York Times! Don't you love it when bread makes the news?