EVERYDAY
Bread twice a day, and a country that shuts in August
The habits that are not preferences.
- Bread is bought twice a day because it dies overnight
A baguette de tradition has four permitted ingredients and no preservative, which is why the queue happens twice and why the loaf is stale by evening.
- The market is a timetable, not a place
Each commune has its day, and the same traders rotate between them. Miss it and you wait a week.
- The pharmacy sign means more than a shop
Pharmacies are limited by population, run on a rota, and do things a British chemist does not.