Dear friends,
This should not go unremarked. James MacGuire is a good friend of a friend of mine, a brilliant chef and an encyclopedic authority on bread baking. I guess that considering what a tough business climate this is for restaurants and bakeries, we should count ourselves blessed that Le Passe-Partout lived as long as it did. Still, I can’t deny that this news breaks my heart. The last sentence in the article, it damn near killed me.
If you are in a newsstand or bookstore that carries Ed Behr’s brilliant foodletter The Art of Eating, snap up a copy. James MacGuire has been writing essays and book reviews, and he is an unvarnished pleasure to read.