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Bag-a-holic?

artwork after Germaine Bouret

 Are you a bag-a-holic?
 Would it be sac-a-holic in French?
 This is my all time favorite quelle ordinaire boulangerie sac/bag. I will leave this to the Smithsonian Institute if they're lucky.
 I bet you've seen this tres common baguette bag. But did you save it? For a few years?
 If you did, welcome to the club.
 The French are mad for silhouettes along with lolly pops/sucettes. I've said it many times.
Here's another charming example, if not a boulangerie sac. I picked up this scrap in Montmorillon. It looks related to the baguette bag does it not?
A small digression to wrapping paper svp/please. But isn't this darling?
I may have picked this up in Nancy and a meat pie/tourte Lorrain may have been wrapped up in it. I forget. But isn't this auspicious and impressive? No idea what it says...
Mystery solved.
This is from a boulangerie after all, referring to the 6 laws of Antoine Augustin (born in 1737) for making bread:
Les bles/wheat, le sel/salt, la levure/the yeast, l'hydration/water, la fermentation/fermentation, and le petrissage/kneading.
I know this wrapping paper held a bit of fromage from the Paris by Mouth tour of Montmartre. So many souvenirs...
Back to boulangerie bags. What an interesting nature morte/still life. Croissants and brioche plus your mandolin. But of course!
Guess what lurks within this little sac? More tomorrow.
So spill the beans.
Do you have a collection of boulangerie paper bags hanging about?

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