NARRATIVE – The legends that date it to Napoleon’s Russian campaign or the creation of the Paris metro have “no historical reality”, according to Éric Birlouez, a food sociologist.
It is an official consecration for the emblem par excellence of France in the world: this Wednesday, the baguette was listed as an intangible heritage of humanity by Unesco. If, because of its iconic character, “the French have the idea that it is a product registered from all eternity in the rural tradition of our country“, observes the sociologist of food Éric Birlouez, it is not really so.
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