tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18308902.post6584045773076531995..comments2022-12-10T11:17:40.776-08:00Comments on RIPE: Our Daily Breadchamp and moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07727536986931554785noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18308902.post-43285176550291729852010-08-01T11:36:36.162-07:002010-08-01T11:36:36.162-07:00Yes, definitely. It's about life itself really...Yes, definitely. It's about life itself really.twixtungzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03584137296068581571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18308902.post-30088959071202437762010-07-30T11:06:05.122-07:002010-07-30T11:06:05.122-07:00You know what? Maybe my mother-in-law IS forgettin...You know what? Maybe my mother-in-law IS forgetting...and maybe her grandmother DID say to tear it instead of cut it...Her memory is very weird, distorted and self-serving. She loves to cut the bread, so maybe she just remembers that that's what she's supposed to do, b/c that's the way she wants it. Who knows. Thanks for bringing this up. I think you are probably right. But the sad strange thing about Alzheimer's is that we only have to go on what we have to go on. I never know, anymore, if she's telling me the truth about the past or something invented. It's surreal. But still: respecting the bread must be a true memory, no?Charlottehttp://www.ripethemovement.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18308902.post-80081675966746304002010-07-30T10:21:26.815-07:002010-07-30T10:21:26.815-07:00Wow, that's interesting because having lived i...Wow, that's interesting because having lived in France with my Basque grandmother and then later as a married woman and then later again alone... I was always told the bread should NOT be cut by a knife but broken with one's hands. It's true that in restaurants and stores it is cut, but at home it's broken. And funnily enough, for the same reasons you give, to respect it. Everything else you said corresponds to what I've known and experienced. Bread is something very important and always respected and every last bit used in one way or another.<br />I love your description of the boulanger and his cat!<br />love, Annatwixtungzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03584137296068581571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18308902.post-66452321431002199372010-07-29T13:46:38.790-07:002010-07-29T13:46:38.790-07:00i love that his cat sleeps in the bakery on newspa...i love that his cat sleeps in the bakery on newspapers. i love that he is covered in flour and missing some teeth and feeds every single soul in the town he lives in and that the God Particle is baked inside this bread, every day. beautiful, Charlotte. quotidian & enormous both. -- janniechamp and moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07727536986931554785noreply@blogger.com