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Artisanal Bakery in France: How it Lives and Why it Survives

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The Petite Bourgeoisie

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Abstract

What the Anglo-Saxons call ‘French bread’ is found, in fact, all over Latin Europe; it is the ancestral form of bread, compared to the industrial food wrapped in a shroud of cellophane which is sold in the supermarkets of the Western world under the somewhat euphemistic label of ‘bread’.

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Bertaux, D., Bertaux-Wiame, I. (1981). Artisanal Bakery in France: How it Lives and Why it Survives. In: Bechhofer, F., Elliott, B. (eds) The Petite Bourgeoisie. Edinburgh Studies in Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06769-5_7

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