Canele

Have you ever had a canele? They're crunchy and chewy on the outside, soft and custardy on the inside. They get this way from being baked inside a copper mold lined with beeswax. They are heaven and they are French. I found this one at Balthazar on Spring Street.

Incredibly, you can now find a canele at a bakery in the town where I grew up. Not only in a bakery, but in a bakery in the laundromat in the town where I grew up. The laundromat where we had to go when the washer broke or the pipes froze. It's called Vergennes Laundry. Things really can change in such unexpected ways.