Guide to Italian Bakeries
I am Italian, and I live in France.<p>> Does anyone make better cookies, pastries and desserts overall than the Italians? We don't think so! And bread? Please.<p>Yes: the French make better bread, cookies, pastries and desserts. French bakeries are just <i>so</i> good.<p>I am not a self hating Italian: Italian cuisine is vastly superior to French cuisine (really overrated!); Italian wine is on par (if not better) than French wine. But French bread, pastry and desserts just win. Like: hands down. They are just <i>so</i> much better.<p>I am in Paris since 2012, and I am not yet tired of buying bread every morning: the smell of fresh bread in the morning is like heaven... Nothing is quite like a good French croissant, or croissant aux amandes, or...<p>The quality of Italians bakeries and pastries is not even half of the French ones. I ignore why Italians totally lack of a "culture" of bread... we can do so much better.