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Baguette Burn

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This post is dedicated to those of us back home whose mouths are more accustomed to eating soft oatmeal bread, or perhaps even wonder bread, rather than baguettes.   Def.-baguette burn: a state of painful rawness in the mouth due to a change in diet; specifically due to the consumption of large amounts of baguettes.   This was something I was not expecting.  You might know about me that I like to make my own rustic bread, with a crunch worthy crust.  So before coming here I did not expect to have a sissy mouth, well I did.  Imagine the first week, I was so excited to be surrounded by delicious freshly baked bread that everyday for lunch I had a sandwich made from baguette and served every meal accompanied with a fresh baguette with butter or some olive oil.  * mental image of Emily with shining eyes, grabbing a baguette sandwich with two hands, biting into it like an alligator *.   The good news is that after weeks of eating baguettes, accompanying nea...