[Book Sip] Serious About Baguettes, Even Building Muscle... "Muscle Loss Is Bread Loss"

Editor's NoteSome sentences encapsulate the entire content of a book, while others instantly resonate with the reader’s heart, creating a connection with the book. Here, we excerpt and introduce such meaningful sentences from books.

The author is a baguette enthusiast. The book is filled with genuine passion for baguettes. When introducing herself, the author also uses the baguette as a tool. She mentions having enough time to prepare breakfast with a baguette before going to work, living in a neighborhood where she can buy delicious baguettes just a block or two away, and being surrounded by an atmosphere that values the quality, price, and stable supply of baguettes. Not satisfied with just one baguette a day, she even cultivates her own sourdough starter to bake baguettes weekly, and manages her muscles to enjoy bread. She says, "The muscles I acquired later for making bread? I must not lose these precious bread muscles. Muscle loss means bread loss."

Although I had no doubt that I would purely enjoy the time eating in Paris, I never thought my eyes would suddenly open wide to food I already knew. I was confident that my love was already full! But, as clich? as it sounds, love suddenly struck at an unplanned moment. Yes, surprisingly, I unexpectedly fell in love anew in Paris. With the crispy, savory, chewy, soft, fragrant, pretty, and simply wonderful baguette that hogs all the goodness alone. - From "Simply Wonderful Things Hog All the Goodness"

Buying a bread basket won’t suddenly change my life, but still, I might try to live in a similar atmosphere just to use it well, right? After all, travel souvenirs are bought with such hopes. If I buy this spice, I’ll be able to cook delicious French dishes. If I wear these clothes, I’ll look like a Parisian. If I put a mini Eiffel Tower model on my desk, I won’t forget that feeling. - From "Buying a Bread Basket Won’t Change Your Life"

The simple act of eating freshly baked baguette in the morning contains many things. First, having enough time to prepare breakfast before work. The leisure not to rely mostly on dawn delivery because there’s no time to shop. Living in a neighborhood where you can buy delicious baguettes just a block or two away. An atmosphere where everyone values the quality, price, and stable supply of baguettes. The meat for tonight’s dinner is chosen by the butcher grandfather, and neighbors seriously debate about their favorite madeleine shops like ideal Twitter users. I’m really envious. Knowing that I’ve given this much meaning to baguettes, the baguette might feel pressured and crumble. But it means I realized that simply searching for and eating delicious baguettes in Korea is insufficient to create the baguette world I desire. Is the one-baguette-a-day habit that I naturally practiced in Paris really this hard? - From "I Am a Well-Meaning Baguette Villain"

So, in conclusion, to have the strength to knead baguette dough and eat baked bread at every meal even when I become a grandmother, I must exercise steadily without getting injured. This is a message I give to myself. Let’s not go back to the days when lying down was the only way to recharge depleted energy. And I must not lose the bread-making muscles I acquired later. Muscle loss means bread loss. - From "Muscle Loss Means Bread Loss"

So, if I want to comfortably enjoy delicious baguettes without particularly ‘cooking,’ I need a bread ecosystem-equipped refrigerator. And right now, my office is exactly in that state. A place fully prepared so that the freshly baked baguette and I who baked it can spend the happiest time. Now, open your refrigerator. What kind of eater am I usually? Is my home refrigerator a world that Rice would like, or a world that Bread would like? And please tell me. I will tell you what kind of person you are. - From "The Bread Ecosystem in the Refrigerator"

At first glance, the baguette’s appeal seems to be its simplicity, but in fact, it is a bread with a strong contrast of simple flavors. The harmony between the moist, soft crumb with large air pockets that quickly flatten when torn or pressed by hand, and the crispy crust that is not hard or firm but crumbles and scatters everywhere. The gradation of colors from pale sandy to yellowish brown to dark brown on the scored cuts and pointed tips, as well as the rich aroma of the crust that evokes both light and deep savory notes. If you consider only the flavors you can experience from simple bread, it shows all the most splendid tastes possible. - From "The Aesthetics of Simplicity, Jambon-Beurre"

Baguette: Muscle Loss Means Bread Loss | Written by Jeong Yeonju | Semicolon | 180 pages | 12,000 KRW

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