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Valentin Lecoeur and his magic wand

2021-11-14T15:51:24.817Z


PORTRAIT - Winner of the seventh national traditional baguette competition, this Norman baker becomes, for one year, the ambassador of this symbol of French gastronomy.


“When a customer comes to buy a baguette and ends up taking two or barely left, he begins to nibble on the little crust, it's magic,”

enthuses Valentin Lecoeur.

This thirty-something, winner of the best baguette in the French tradition, is inexhaustible in evoking his love of the baguette.

"He is a wonderful ambassador of the profession, a gentle boy, calm and so happy with what he does"

, confirms Dominique Anract, president of the National Confederation of French bakery and pastry.

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With all due respect to its detractors who reproach it for its old-fashioned side and prefer more sophisticated recipes, with spices or cereals, the baguette indeed remains the queen of breads… and this despite bad winds.

This scandal around the winner of the best baguette in Paris, suspected of having shared hateful messages against France on social networks and who will therefore not be - as is customary - official supplier

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Source: lefigaro

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