Hollande Gets Crispy Crust as Paris Picks City’s Best Baguette
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For Djibril Bodian, whose baguette will grace the table of French President Francois Hollande after it was judged the best in Paris, the perfect sample has a thin, crispy crust and a light crumb that doesn’t stick.
“And a smell that makes you want to take a bite,” the 38-year-old baker of Senegalese origin, who won this year’s contest on Thursday, said in an interview.