The Audacity.

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A visit to the Poilâne Bakery

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Roxane Gay
May 03, 2022
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While I was in Paris for my youngest brother’s wedding, Sudeep Rangi and Appollonia Poilâne reached out and invited me to the bakery Poilâne. I love baking so I did not hesitate. I took my ten-year-old niece Parker, and off we went to a beautiful little bakery on a narrow Parisian street full of chic shops. At the storefront, customers queue halfway up …

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