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For the croutons, thinly slice the baguette on the diagonal and fry the slices in the olive oil until crisp and golden.
What do you serve it with (baguette ? buttered noodles?) and can anyone recommend a source of decent, good-value riesling?
So the baguette survives—"intimist (sic), fragile, indiscreet and disturbing", as another director, Robert Enrico, calls it.In this section Most-wanted photography Behind the headlines New waves The unrepentent modernist Glorious Georges ReprintsSuch "intimist" films, however, are now in the minority.
In Carrefour at Montesson, a giant out-of-town hypermarket west of Paris, the bakery shelves are stacked with "Harry's American Sandwich" bread, a sliced product that has taken the land of the baguette by storm.
Once the only take-away lunchtime option was a filled baguette at the local boulangerie.
When I accompany my son and a group of 20 more six-year-olds to our local fire station next week to learn about fire safety, I will not carry a Dior shopping bag.Back to top >>ThursdayON THE way home from work yesterday evening, in an inexplicable fit of adventurousness, I decided to try out a different boulangerie when buying my baguette.
Even British made-simple cook-books, from Delia Smith to Nigella Lawson have been selling like hot cakes in French.A checked cotton table cloth, a bottle of wine, a baguette or two, a slice of terrine de foie gras de canard: liberation from the shackles of formal entertaining, or the loss of a cultural tradition?
As for a baguette , well, for 85 cents you can buy the humble stick, but the place now offers, if my hasty count last night was right, 27 different sorts of bread.
Think again.French cinema used to concentrate on what a critic called urban baguette movies, like Britain's "Hovis" films rustic period romances resembling advertisements for brown bread.
But the most appetising recent baguette is "La femme défendue", by 41-year-old Philippe Harel, a delicate and brilliantly scripted tale in which a girl, played by Isabelle Carré, outsmarts her seducer, played by the camera itself.
Its incarnations across the globe vary from the Chilean barros luco (hot steak and melted cheese in a roll) to the Vietnamese bánh mì (pate, pork and pickled vegetables in a baguette).
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The primary grammatical function of "baguette" is as a noun . It names a specific type of bread, as shown in examples from Ludwig. According to Ludwig AI, the word is correct and usable in English.
Expression frequency: Very common
