Breadwinner: French bakers make world’s longest baguette, beating Italy after 5 years

French bakers cooked the world’s longest baguette on Sunday at 140.53 metres (461ft), reclaiming a record for one of the nation’s best-known emblems taken by Italy for five years. The baguette, about 235 times longer than the traditional one, was made in Suresnes in the suburbs of Paris during an event for the French confederation … Read more