It may be a cliche that French people eat freshly baked baguettes daily, but it's not far off the truth, as their bread ...

Robert Zaretsky teaches at the University of Houston. His new book is “Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague.” France is on a roll. A cylindrical roll, to be precise ...

France has released baguette-inspired scratch-and-sniff stamps, but disgusted bakers argue that the postage item is unable to properly replicate the yeasty aroma of freshly baked bread.

In France, where ‘bread is life’, what happens when traditional bakeries die? In a country known for its baguette and pastry-eating ways, baked goods are a way of life.

The trouble began months ago when France’s 63,000 neighborhood bakers decided that the 45 francs (about 14¢) the government allowed them to charge for a pound of bread did not give them enough ...