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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5723/A6.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='French Baguette Gets UNESCO Recognition' data-article-id='6326'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='10917'>UNESCO, the cultural organization of the United Nations, voted this week to recognize the importance of the French baguette.</span> <span data-start-time='10917' data-end-time='27104'>The international experts gathered in Morocco to discuss the French bread and other subjects, including a traditional Japanese dance and the drink called rum from Cuba.</span> <span data-start-time='27104' data-end-time='33563'>The baguette is a long, narrow tube-shaped bread. </span> <span data-start-time='33563' data-end-time='41271'>It is made of simple ingredients: water, flour, yeast and salt. </span> <span data-start-time='41271' data-end-time='46042'>It dates back a few hundred years in its early form. </span> <span data-start-time='46042' data-end-time='55458'>But, the baguette grew wildly popular during the 1920s and became a staple in French kitchens.</span> <span data-start-time='55458' data-end-time='64625'>However, France’s cultural agency has warned that the country’s bread making tradition is failing. </span> <span data-start-time='64625' data-end-time='73313'>About 400 bakeries have closed every year since 1972, the agency reported.</span> <span data-start-time='73313' data-end-time='88833'>At the start of 2022, French bakers and farmers criticized Leclerc, a large food store group, for making low-cost, low quality bread.</span> <span data-start-time='88833' data-end-time='103000'>They said the store’s bread, which cost just 30 cents, was not as good as the bread from traditional bakeries where it costs about a dollar.</span> <span data-start-time='103000' data-end-time='107500'>Marine Fourchier lives in Paris. </span> <span data-start-time='107500' data-end-time='113646'>She said it is easy now to get a bad baguette in the city.</span> <span data-start-time='113646' data-end-time='119688'>“It’s the traditional baguette from the traditional bakery that’s in danger. </span> <span data-start-time='119688' data-end-time='124354'>It’s about quality not quantity,” she said.</span> <span data-start-time='124354' data-end-time='132313'>Audrey Azoulay leads UNESCO and formerly served as France’s culture minister. </span> <span data-start-time='132313' data-end-time='138458'>She said buying and eating baguettes is a “daily ritual” in France. </span> <span data-start-time='138458' data-end-time='143417'>Ten billion are sold in the country each year.</span> <span data-start-time='143417' data-end-time='152833'>“It is important that such craft knowledge and social practices can continue to exist in the future,” she continued.</span> <span data-start-time='152833' data-end-time='165188'>The French government will start a yearly baguette event, called “Open Bakehouse Day” to expand public understanding of the bread making tradition.</span> <span data-start-time='165188' data-end-time='172896'>Asma Farhat is a baker at Julien’s Bakery near the Champs-Elysee in Paris. </span> <span data-start-time='172896' data-end-time='178375'>She said “you can’t have a proper meal” without a baguette.</span> <span data-start-time='178375' data-end-time='193063'>In addition to the rum, the Japanese dance and the bread, UNESCO honored many more traditions in places including Hungary, Greece, Guatemala and South Korea.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div 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