A beautiful time

T he French are renowned - or reviled - for having the most relaxed working hours in Europe. But someone must have forgotten to tell the slavishly hardworking Eric Rousseau, baker, patissier and chocolatier at north London’s Belle Époque. He puts the ’work’ into ’work ethic’.

 

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