Considering your neighborhood baker to be the best baguette maker in the world - and bragging about it to your friends! - is a typically Parisian local sport... which the Marais Mood team happily indulges in.
It must be said that Benjamin Turker's baguette presents a very remarkable relationship between the crunchiness of the crust and the aeration of the crumb. It is therefore no coincidence that this owner of two bakeries, located at 134, rue de Turenne and 59, rue de Saintonge, regularly receives awards.
In 2009, just two years after opening his first address, he came 2nd in the city of Paris' traditional baguette competition organized by the bakers' union, a venerable institution founded in 1801. Three years later, in 2012, he was 9th and in 2014, 3rd. His croissant won 2nd prize in 2013 and 1st in 2015.
The trade secret of this former management controller turned baker? Let the bread dough rise for twenty-four hours before baking it, instead of around three hours in most bakeries. For ten years, the success of this job creator (his business employs twenty-five people) has been constant. At the end of April, this elite artisan will once again participate in the traditional baguette competition. The bets are open.
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Piccola Mia, the pizzas of the Republic
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Almonds, walnuts and peanuts: Rifai, the king of nuts
It's high time to take peanuts seriously! This nut has not always been treated with the respect due to its rank. Fortunately, Rifai, who succeeds the A la Ville de Rodez food store which has been located on rue Vieille-du-Temple for a century, is there to right this injustice.
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Victor Hugo, the writer with a thousand talents
Born in 1802, Victor Hugo became a social writer, a playwright, a poet, a novelist and a romantic designer. Nicknamed the man-ocean then the man-century, he is a political figure and a committed intellectual. He found success with Notre-Dame-de-Paris in 1831 and with Les Misérables in 1862.
The best tattoo parlors in Marais
Tattooing, an age-old practice, has long been the prerogative of convicts, dock workers, the underworld and sailors. Although it has become democratized, now affecting all profiles and concerning one in five French people, including 16% women compared to 10% men, it still remains taboo due to its definitive and transgressive nature.
Juliette Drouet actress, muse and mistress of Victor Hugo
At 14 rue Sainte-Anastase, from 1836 to 45 and at 12 from 1845 to 48, a few hundred meters from Place des Vosges, lived the muse and lover of Victor Hugo, Juliette Drouet née Julienne Gauvain.