“Somebody has been studying their Vermeer,” wrote a respected colleague when I shared this photo on my Instagram feed.
I’m no Vermeer, but he’s right. That Dutch Baroque still life is precisely the mood I was striving for with this image, inspired by a still-warm loaf of freshly baked sourdough from a beautiful bakery called Rye Goods in Newport Beach.
I recently wrote about this new slow-food bakery’s extraordinary lemon-curd morning bun for the Orange County Register. The sourdough, a throw-back to simpler times, is equally exciting. This little corner of Newport Beach keeps getting better and more interesting. One could easily and happily spend a long weekend in this neighborhood without ever feeling the desire to venture any farther into Orange County. That certainly wasn’t the case a couple of years ago.
Rye Goods, 3418 Via Lido, Newport Beach, 949-432-5550, ryegoods.com
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