Epi Baguettes

If you have the opportunity to drive through farm country in the fall, you may be lucky enough to see the beautiful golden ripe wheat sheaves bending into shallow waves in the wind. This picture-perfect display of nature’s bounty inspires the shape of these loaves.

Epi is the French word for an ear of wheat—the top part of the wheat sheaf. Forming the baguettes in this shape is not only fitting, but also attractive. Epi baguettes add visual appeal to a bread display on a buffet tabl