Mike Pearce wrote:

> "Static I" <statici@aol.com> wrote:
> 
>>>"Mike Pearce" mpearce7@coxREMOVE.net
>>>Date: 9/19/2003 2:01 PM Central Standard Time
>>>Message-id: <7pIab.185758$xf.141511@lakeread04>
>>
>>>I've only lived in New Orleans a year now, but have been visiting here
>>>regularly for over a decade and I'm still amazed at the quality of
>>>restaurant food here
>>
>>I've been in Mobile about the same time. I'd love to live in the Quarter,
> 
> but
> 
>>I'm about thirty years too old for it.
> 
> 
> I didn't know there was an age limit in the Quarter. <g>
> 
> I live in mid-city about two miles from the Quarter. There would be pluses
> and minuses to living in the quarter. I really like may area. I'm within
> walking distance from a Whole Foods market, and Italian convenince store/
> meat shop, a number of very good restaurants, City Park and the Fair Grounds
> (Jazz Fest). Yet it is a quiet neighborhood, except during Jazz Fest,  where
> everyone knows everyone else.
> 
> I made friends quick when I started giving away my extra bread. I guess it's
> not really extra, I make it to give away.
> 
> -Mike
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> 
> 
> 
>>I'm really surprised about the bakers - I'd have thought good bread would
>>follow good restaurants. But this is biscuit territory, I guess.
> 
> 
> Other than the one down the street, "La Boulangerie" , I'm not really aware
> of any other artisan bakeries in town. That may well be my own ignorance as
> I tend to make the majority of the bread I consume and have been too busy
> doing homeowner stuff to make time to go bakery hunting.
> 
> -Mike

If you have a Whole Foods Market, chances are you have access to some 
reasonably good French breads. This is followup on the comments that 
there is no good bread in Mobile. Perhaps even some partially baked La 
Brea Bakery bread.
-- 
Alan

"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and
avoid the people, you might better stay home."
                                 --James Michener