Baguette

Three baguettes on a board, each slashed along its length so the oven opens those cuts into crisp, blistered ridges. That scoring is the baker's signature, and the four-ingredient dough of flour, water, salt and yeast or leaven is why the crust carries all the flavor. UNESCO added the artisanal know-how and culture of baguette bread to its intangible heritage list in 2022, a fair measure of how central this loaf is to the French day.