Fête du pain

If the French are going to have a festival of anything, it should be bread. And so we were delighted when our friends from the nearby village of Dienville invited us to join them for the ‘Fête du pain’ in the small village of Trannes.

It was a typical low key event, with minimal advertising and signage, but the turnout was big and the stalls were varied. They have 7 wood fired bread ovens in the village and once a year fire them up to cook bread. We bought some bread straight away from the ‘maison pour tous’, as we were advised that it sells out quickly, we also bought our pizza tickets. The queue for the pizzas was growing quickly, even though it wasn’t lunchtime yet.

So we joined the queue, acknowledging that it would probably be lunchtime by the time we got to the front.

The queue moved surprisingly quickly, mostly because of the enormous, and very hot, bread oven that they were using. The pizzas spent about 30 seconds in there before they were whipped out again and served up.

We chose our toppings from a list further up the queue, and were soon ordering them. Moments later we had our beautiful pizzas.

Lovely event, lovely pizzas!