Fry-bread and bakeries in Laborie

Our hosts told us about three great places to find fresh bread, or a quick lunch, in town.  One of the businesses was Zeb's Creole Bread, which consisted of a wood-fired oven in the backyard of a home on one of the main streets.  There was no sign on the street indicating that there was a bakery in the back, but from the street we could see the fire burning in the oven.  We ventured down the path, and found the congenial baker, and wonderful creole bread, which tasted like good french bread.

The baker starts his day at 6 a.m. making the dough and letting it rise.  By noon he's got some finished rolls.  Even in the open shed, it's a hot job!

Inside the oven, the fire has been swept off to the side after heating up the baking surface.  The rolls are lined up to bake, and then broken apart as they're done.

Finished rolls displayed in bins.  We paid EC$1, or 40 cents U.S. for 3 rolls.  

While we were there, a local kid came by to buy bread for his mom.  

There was a regular bakery on the main shopping street too, that had all kinds of baked goods during business hours.  We'd been told that even after the bakery was officially closed for the day, we could go around to the side door at 7 p.m. to buy fresh bread. We paid EC$2, or about 80 cents U.S. for a nice, warm loaf of french bread.  Once again, kids from the neighborhood were stopping by to get bread to take home too.

We bought lunch at the blue house a few times.  We didn't realize this was the same place, seen from the soccer field.

The lunch place, approaching from the soccer field

Here's the way we first encountered the lunch place.  It was closed when I took this photo, but you get the idea that it was pretty rustic from this angle, and we still walked down the drive and bought our take-out lunch here!  I guess this was really the back door.  There was also a nice seating area and a bar on the side.

The lunch place, approaching from the street

The bread guy, frying up some delicious rolls

If we hadn't entered the place from the back, we wouldn't have seen the fry-bread process.  Once again, the old traditional stove was still in regular use here.

An old wood burning cooker.  The fry-bread is cooked on this, in a metal pan filled with oil.

Top view of the cooker.  

Our chicken and fry-bread lunch was EC$10, or $4 U.S.  It was delicious.

I could have eaten this every day!