Paris crowns new king of the crusty baguette in annual bread-baking prize

Baker Xavier Netry was chosen this week as the 31st winner of Paris’s annual Grand Prix de la baguette prize.
Parisians walk by the Utopie bakery in Paris. Picture: Thibault Camus/AP

Parisians walk by the Utopie bakery in Paris. Picture: Thibault Camus/AP

Paris has a new king of the crusty baguette.

Baker Xavier Netry was chosen this week as the 31st winner of Paris’s annual Grand Prix de la baguette prize.

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