Kicking off a week in Los Angeles with a loaf of whole wheat sesame bread from Tartine Bakery in DTLA.
The Idiot, who thinks Tartine’s bread is the best in California, carries his own premium virgin olive oil (from the Durant Olive Farm in Oregon) with him when he travels and flavors it with salt (from the Camargue in France) and a sprinkling of Tellicherry peppercorns (from India’s Malabar coast).
The Idiot has long been convinced that “man shall not live by bread alone, but by Tartine bread, Oregon olive oil, French salt and Indian pepper.”
About Joel
Joel Stratte-McClure has been a global trekker since the 1970s. He lived in France for over 30 years, working as a journalist, before he turned his attention to a unique life-time-project of walking the shores of the Mediterranean. The first 4,401 kilometers are explored in his inspirational and entertaining first book "The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean." The next 4,401 kilometers are covered in the gods-filled sequel, "The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean,” published on Valentine's Day 2013. The last 4,401 kilometers will be discussed in the last book of the trilogy currently entitled "The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Alexander the Great Walks the Mediterranean."
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