French Baguette Gets UNESCO Heritage Status
The French baguette gets UNESCO heritage status - The world is celebrating with France on the announcement by UNESCO that the baguette has been granted world heritage status as "something worthy of humanity’s preservation."
The baguette has been added to UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage list, with the status being specifically granted to the savoir-faire (known-how) on how the French bread is made and the culinary tradition of the bread.
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With only four ingredients; flour, water, yeast and salt, the baguette is seemingly simple, but after being baked in a steam oven, it becomes the crispy crusty bread with the soft centre that we all love so much.
The baguette is a French icon used in graphics, photos, films, marketing and just about anything representing France including GIFS and social media emojis. When I see a baguette I can't help but think of France. Are you the same?
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Do you know these baguette facts?
- More than six billion baguettes are baked each year in France.
- President Macron has just been quoted as saying the baguette is "250 grams of magic and perfection in our daily lives."
- France voted in 2021 on whether to apply for the status for the baguette, for the distinctive grey zinc roofs of Paris or for the tradition of wine festivals – and the baguette won!
- The end of a baguette is called the crouton.
- Annual competitions are held to judge the best baguette across France.
- The baguette was initially a luxury product. Loic Bienassis, of the European Institute of Food History and Cultures (who helped prepare the UNESCO dossier) has been quoted explaining how the baguette was in times past a luxury product - “Initially, the baguette was considered a luxury product. The working classes ate rustic breads that kept better".
- One popular tale on why the baguette is the shape it is, is that Napoleon ordered bread to be made in thin sticks so they could be more easily carried by his soldiers.
Vintage delivery van with its load of fresh baguettes
