Essential Baking Company take and bake is fine if you don’t have access to a decent bakery. WF should have it.

Outside of the DC area. Make Stanley Tucci’s rosemary focaccia instead.

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I don't think it is better than Wegmans.

I have decided I hate the taste of any bread with preservatives. Which is pretty much everything available in the DMV.

I make a no knead that is pretty easy.

I dump 3 1/4 c flour, 1 to 2 tsp of active dry yeast, and a tsp or so of salt into a bowl. Mix. Add 1 1/2 c very warm water and stir till it comes together. Cover and let rise overnight or at least 8 hours or so. Take out of bowl onto floured surface, stretch out into a rectangle and roll up. Put into a loaf pan (and I use parchment paper in there). Bake at 450 for 1/2 an hour. Done. And it tastes good. I don't like it when made in a dutch oven, but that looks artisanal and most prefer it, so consider it. Most recipes for no-knead make it that way.

Go to a real French bakery, but you need to go the day of. Because no preservatives are used, it is less good the next day. If you can't go same day, then do the bake at home bread.

Whole Foods definitely doesn't have fantastic bread.

Fresh Baguette https://www.freshbaguette.net/store-locator/

Bread Furst French baguette

Go to an Italian deli or bakery and sample a few.

I don’t know of any fantastic bread anywhere. Whole Foods bread is ok, nowhere near fantastic. You would be better off baking your own if you know how.

You will have to try a few first. My friends highly recommend a certain bakery that I find truly awful.

I am serving a seafood casserole on Christmas Eve and want to have fantastic bread on the side. Any recommendations? I was thinking Whole Foods take & bake. Is real bakery bread worth it?