Fresh Food?

The French are sort of weird about the shelf life of food. They insist on buying their bread daily from bakeries where it is made from the freshest ingredients and without preservatives and it isn’t any good 2 days after it has been purchased. Also, they purchase their fish from the market the morning it is to be eaten and bring it home-tail and head included! On the other had, they buy their milk in cardboard boxes. It comes treated so that it can be kept for months in the basement pantry without refrigeration. Also, they absolutely love Roquefort, a cheese that is so moldy it’s actually illegal to sell certain types of it in the United States! But bread is only good the day that it is bought…it’s damn good bread though so I won’t complain.