How is everything going with you? I hope it is well in the world where you are.
In Uruguay in the news this week: the bread makers association is hoping to get ‘pan marsellĂ©s’ (Marseille bread) formally declared part of Uruguay’s heritage.
What??? Right. Turns out pan marsellés is not French. It is thought to have originated in Uruguay about a century ago and wherever you go you’ll find it in bakeries.
It’s quite an austere bread. Fitting of plain and simple Uruguay. It’s a roll shaped like a pair of trousers and sprinkled with maize flour (or polenta). It’s 100% artisanal and according to the bakers association will stay that way because its elaboration is not suitable for mass production.
Want to have a try? And practise your Spanish at the same time? Here’s a recipe.
Any Uruguayan over forty will associate pan marsellés with their grandmother who would have served it thickly buttered.
Another illustration of how life here in Uruguay often feels kinder and simpler than elsewhere.
Have a great weekend
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