Our little local supermarket has freshly baked bread. Sometimes still warm. They do have an oven and we’ve seen it baking multiple loaves. Can’t tell where the bread dough is prepared and proofed but presumably not on the premises as there isn’t really a suitable space. But beautiful bread. Sourdough and studded top and bottom with hundreds of sesame and nigella seeds. Don’t usually eat bread that isn’t whole grain, but willing to make an occasional exception for this one.
The most basic bread loaves have a government controlled price of fifteen lira, about sixty cents Canadian or 33p. Plain white, unsliced, shaped like a small loaf of French bread, though less appealing. Needless to say we don’t buy it but J has watched people leaving with armloads. Don’t think there are price controls on any other staples.
Good time for warm bread. Reports are coming in regarding record temperatures. Not ones that would raise the blood pressure of a Canadian, but a fifty year record set. The town of Geçitkale recorded -6.2, the lowest in the country’s fifty years of monitoring history. It’s a town well to the east of us, on the other side of the mountain range.
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