Studying the pastry case at Bruehwiler's bakery, my eyes lock onto what appears to be my favorite French pastry: pain aux raisins, a glazed spiral of sweet, eggy yeast bread studded with raisins, with a fine layer of pastry cream woven throughout.
Adding something like 10 percent of whole wheat or rye or barley flour to a white dough gives you something like what the French call pain complet, but it's not complet at all; it's just white bread with a little whole wheat in it, like the stuff they sell in stores.
Don't be scared away by the fancy French name, pain perdu is just French toast.
Here you can see the oven in which the bread known in Provencal as coudoles and in French as pains azymes -- matzo -- was baked.
One recent morning at La Baguette Shop, a Haitian bakery in Cambria Heights that sells baked goods with a French influence, like pain au chocolat, the owners and several customers discussed the state of affairs in Haiti and the effects of deportation.
Not only does the main shop offer what is widely acknowledged as the best baguette in Tokyo, it uses flour from France, Italy and three different regions in Japan to create more than 70 kinds of breads and pastries, including seasonal fruit tarts, Vienna-style pastries and traditional French favorites like pain rustique and brioche.
The Socialist president said that France under his leadership already has the toolbox of measures it needs to reverse its 10.6 percent unemployment rate — suggesting that he was unwilling to challenge the country's most hard-nosed labor unions in a blood-sweat-and-tears test of the French capacity for pain.
To compare the attitudes of French veterinarians to pain, and their provision of analgesia to animals, with that reported from other countries.
They marched, arms linked, along part of the route to be, and be seen to be, part of a French story of pain and resolve.
The Institute for Development Research IRDD) in Marseille, France, was accused of biopiracy by a human rights organization for filing a patent "without acknowledging the indigenous and local communities that helped the institute isolate the drug from a traditional medicinal plant" in French Guiana, Elisabeth Pain reported on ScienceInsider on Wednesday.
