Bread-Bakers v105.n016.12

My favorite bread quote, which also says something about the Italian 
concern with food is:

"The optimum for taste and consistency of crust is obtained by baking bread 
in a brick oven, heated by burning oak branches with a few walnut branches, 
and swept out with a broom of olive branches dampened with rain water"

Guillano Bugialli, in The Art of Italian Cooking.