How to Reuse Bread for the Tastiest Tomato Sandwich | Jacques Pépin Cooking at Home | KQED
"Bread, for a Frenchman, is the stuff of life. I cannot live without bread". Rest assured, there is no bread left behind in the Pépin household. Jacques demonstrates a few techniques for resusing stale bread that may otherwise have been tossed. He shares a trick for rehydrating and toasting bread, making croutons, and more. Jacques Pépin wraps up the episode with the tastiest tomato sandwich using crunchy bread and anchovies. With grocery prices the way they are, these adopting these tricks are more useful than ever.
Please note: if your bread has become moldy, please don't feed it to the birds, as Jacques suggests here. We love that he is so opposed to waste, but moldy bread may harm birds.
