France has more than 30,000 independent bakeries — and the country consumes around 10 billion baguettes every year. One bread baker says that amid the pandemic, he's now staying open 7 days a week to help keep customers fed.
Eleanor Beardsley/NPRTony Doré wears a face mask as baguettes cool in his bakery in Paris' 15th arrondissement.Paris baker Tony Doré pulls a rack of toasted, golden baguettes from the oven. He says he's baking them all day long to keep his customers supplied.
As the world confronts the coronavirus, millions are confined to their homes. In most places, the only people going to work are those whose jobs are deemed essential. In the U.S., that includes supermarket employees, pharmacists and postal workers. In France, it also includes bread bakers, orKeeping up production of the nation's favorite loaf, the baguette, turns out to be essential to helping the French survive the crisis.
At the Boulangerie Faubourg Saint-Charles, Doré says a few things have changed with the coronavirus pandemic. The scent of bread still wafts from ovens in the back, but Doré has now hung plastic sheeting in the front of histo separate the displays of pastries and sandwiches from customers. Each of his employees now wears a mask and gloves and only one person at a time is allowed inside the warm, fragrant bakery.
"I'm a doctor and I have full days visiting people in their homes," he says."With all the restaurants closed, I have no other lunch options. This bakery has become my regular canteen."
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