Passing the Baguette

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His unplanned vacation didn't last long. "I contacted Jeff at 8 a.m. of the day following Fresh Seasons' announcement," says Robert Cantelon, manager and co-owner of Arbor Farms Market on Stadium. A former baker himself (he owned the legendary Sun Bakery downtown), Cantelon says Renner's bread lives up to its name. "Many folks have followed" his baguettes to Arbor Farms, he says--so many that even after boosting deliveries to eighty loaves a day, they're selling out. "We haven't been able to get enough thus far," says Cantelon. "We've asked Jeff to do an extra bake for us."   

[Originally published in December, 2009.]