LA BAGUETTE ENORME EN GALA II
Mimi Oka and Doug Fitch

On June 20th, 2009, as part of the Festival Excentrique, sustenance artists Mimi Oka and Doug Fitch return to France for a gargantuan culinary performance, known as La Baguette Enorme en Gala -- a loaf of bread designed to feed an entire village, in this case, that of St. Benoit du Sault., one of the “most beautiful villages in France.”

20 meters of Baguette in search of companions. Breaking bread connotes community. "Companions" are people who break bread together. La Baguette Enorme en Gala is a celebration of community expressed by this symbol of the common man. In this spirit Oka and Fitch invite you to join the village of St. Benoit du Sault in the preparation, baking, parading and finally, the consumption of a 20 meter loaf of bread. This celebratory loaf becomes the object around which we gather, and upon which we dine.

La Baguette as hunting ground for treasure (edible and otherwise) Everyone is invited to bring something to bake into the baguette, from steak au poivre, to piperade, from a keychain to your grandmother’s jar of pickles. Oka and Fitch will be providing artifacts to be uncovered in this edible archeological dig. You keep what you find and eat what you will.

Companions, heave ho! Attendees of this banquet will be invited to raise high the Baguette, parading it through the streets to a 20 meter dining table overlooking the hills. In a final act of collaboration, the community created by this event, will feast upon its creation.

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