The Brilliance of French Bread

Well I've just been gorging myself on some french bread and it got me thinking about it. French bread is so great, its hard outer-shell with the soft inside and its perfect with cheese or egg mayo or anything else really you want to put inside.

















Now look at that French bread and tell me you don't want to pick up a margerine or butter coated knife, spread it and eat it. It's just unbelievably good.

Unfortunately I haven't "real" french bread from France since June and you can really tell the difference. One of the main reasons is a fantastic food law that they have over in France:

French food laws define bread as a product containing only the following four ingredients: water, flour, yeast, and common salt. The addition of any other ingredient to the basic recipe requires the baker to use a different name for the final product.

Isn't that law amazing? I think it is. You know that your bread doesn't have any preservatives in and you know what you're getting!