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Macron wants the French baguette to become a Unesco-listed symbol

Irish uilleann piping was granted the same status last year.

PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON has joined calls by bakers for France’s traditional baguette to be recognised as one of the world’s cultural treasures on Unesco’s list of “intangible heritage”.

The status would aim to draw attention to the importance of safeguarding essential items that make up the world’s cultural diversity.

The call came after the art of Naples’ dough-twirling pizza makers was given the nod by the UN cultural body’s World Heritage Committee in December.

Other “intangible heritage” items on the Unesco list are falconry, Arabic coffee, the Mediterranean diet and Ireland’s uilleann piping.

“The baguette is envied around the world. We must preserve its excellence and our expertise, and it is for this reason that it should be heritage-listed,” Macron told a group of master bakers at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris.

Dominique Anract, the head of the national confederation of baking and pastry, earlier said the “marvellous” baguette, made of flour, water, salt and yeast, should “have its rightful place” in world heritage.

Along with the Eiffel tower, the baguette is one of the main symbols of France, Anract told a local radio station.

“The baguette is part of daily life in France and the bread has a special history,” Macron said.

It’s a morning, midday and evening tradition for the French.
I know our bakers, they saw the Neapolitans succeed in getting their pizza classified under UNESCO world heritage, and they said why not the baguette – and they’re right!

- With reporting from Gráinne Ní Aodha, © AFP, 2018

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    Jul 21st 2019, 8:47 AM

    Brilliant as always Darach. Well done!!

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    Jul 21st 2019, 8:40 AM

    Great Sunday read as always.

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    Jul 21st 2019, 8:58 AM

    Am I pronouncing fáinní Shathairn wrong, cos I don’t get the joke other than the spelling.

    Keep it up, bainim taitneamh as do obair.

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    Jul 21st 2019, 2:00 PM

    @Paul Fairbrother: there’s no h after the t; shatairn (SHATairn)

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    Jul 21st 2019, 1:32 PM

    I was frequently referred to as a spásaire in school. Good Times

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    Jul 21st 2019, 7:34 PM

    @Dave O’Keeffe: An mbíteá anaireach go minic sa seomra ranga?

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    Jul 21st 2019, 1:14 PM

    The Irish language is so descriptive it’s a treasure not to be “CAILLTE”

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    Jul 21st 2019, 11:27 AM

    Yes Paul, the ‘s’ is silent so not sure why it is funny. Any chance of removing the ‘i’ in ‘scuaib’? The correct spelling is ‘scuab’, though ‘réalta na scuaibe’ is fine.

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    Jul 21st 2019, 2:23 PM

    @Ruairí Ó HEithir: scuaib is a dialect spelling, so technically not wrong. But it can be a little misleading for learners when presented with two versions of one word, so I do agree with you.

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    Jul 21st 2019, 9:33 PM

    Coincidentally, astronaut is made of two Greek words meaning star sailor. Just in case anyone was wondering……

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    Jul 22nd 2019, 8:16 AM

    @Conall: we weren’t, we read that in the article.

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    Jul 26th 2019, 8:52 PM

    @Dave O’Keeffe: he said latin not greek, astronaut is from greek

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