Good Bread & Chocolate

Every time the other DrC and I travel to Europe we ask ourselves why (a) everyone in Europe can bake wonderful bread and (b) hardly anyone in the U.S. can do so? Normally bread in Canada is much better than ours.

Bakers on U.S. cruise ships make excellent rolls, and some U.S. hotels do so as well. Do you suppose they've imported European bakers?

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Speaking of Canada, if you're in Alberta visit a chocolaterie named Bernard Callebaut. The home office and factory is in Calgary but there are offices across Canada and two in the U.S., one in OR and one in IL. The chocolates are pricey but as good as fine Belgian chocolate. Sinfully good.