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Post by Happygoin on Jan 1, 2013 13:44:51 GMT -5
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Post by Sandy M on Jan 2, 2013 7:49:22 GMT -5
Yes, pretty sure I have been here - if my memory serves me right - Gitte, Shoesy and myself were here with a Meeting the French tour - do you remember Shoesy?? I kinda remember this guy as the one who gave us the tour - he even had us score the bread before it was put in the oven. |
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Post by geordy on Jan 2, 2013 9:23:44 GMT -5
Oh how sad! Yes we were there ...actually Happy I think on the trip when I met you!
Yes got to make the marks on the baguette..watch croissant making and pain a chocolat..got to taste the chocolate bar used! Also had candied orange ......
I asked the owner why a baker would be dressed in black and he said he was semi-retired!
Cool place, tiny stairway down stairs, overhead chute from street where they deliver the flour in bulk directly from a truck, then flour comes from bin upstairs right into giant mixer as needed....hate to see a boutique there!
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Post by Shoesy on Jan 2, 2013 14:22:54 GMT -5
I sure do remember the tour of that boulangerie, Sandy. Wasn't there a resident kitty there? ;D
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Post by PariS on Jan 3, 2013 13:07:59 GMT -5
Awww, this is really a shame! Yes, it's the boulangerie patisserie Au Grand Richelieu at 51 rue de Richelieu, the boulangerie that Meeting the French tours. Claude Esnault is indeed the gentleman who does the tour--I've done it 3 times. The last time there I bought his book, which I have yet to read, but this will spur me on.
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Post by mez on Jan 4, 2013 0:54:33 GMT -5
I've also done the tour and it is still one of the more interesting things I have done in Paris. What a shame.
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Post by travelluver on Jan 4, 2013 19:51:14 GMT -5
Oh, I'm so sad. I took my niece and my mother here in 2010, also as a part of a Meeting the French tour. It was lovely and Claude was a doll, I remember mentioning on the board how he flirted with my (then) 78 year young mom - what a pity -
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Post by jo on Jan 7, 2013 6:46:43 GMT -5
We did this tour as well in September 2010 ~ it was so informative and we learned so much about the great tradition of baking bread in Paris. Sad news indeed  Jo |
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Let the riot begin! LOL - 
hahahha