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“Look, the French know how to make a great baguette, right? There isn’t a lot of dispute there. No one is regularly saying, ‘Eh, I don’t think the French have really proven their baguette-making skills just yet.’ But hold on. Can the French make a big baguette? An enormously long baguette that could feed a small town? Yes. It turns out they can do that, too.” NYT (Gift Article): A Baguette Is Baked in France: It was almost 500 feet long, beating out a loaf baked in Italy in 2019. (I’ll take an inch of San Francisco sourdough over 500 feet of French baguette.)