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PARIS (AP) — Paris has a caller king of nan crusty baguette.
Baker Xavier Netry was chosen this week arsenic nan 31st victor of Paris’ yearly “Grand Prix de la baguette” prize.
His agelong loaf hit 172 others.
Competing baguettes were evaluated for taste, look, texture, airiness and nan value of nan baking. The assemblage included a lawman mayor, manufacture representatives, journalists and six Parisians that City Hall said were drawn astatine random.
The Utopie bakery successful Paris’ 11th territory that Netry useful for wins 4,000 euros ($4,290) and becomes 1 of nan suppliers of nan statesmanlike Elysee Palace for a year.
City Hall said uneaten baguettes from nan title were donated to a kindness that feeds group who are homeless.
Netry, a baker for 25 years, said nan secrets of his occurrence are a bully sourdough starter and “a bully agelong fermentation,” observant cooking and “some emotion and immoderate passion, of course.”
