The French Post Office (La Poste) has [issuance / issued] a commemorative postage stamp to honour France's famous bread – the baguette. The new stamp is not a run-of-the-[hill / mill] issue. Its surface is [coasted / coated] with tiny capsules that, once broken, release the [fragrance / flagrant] of freshly baked bread. The €1.96 stamp [depicts / decrepit] a baguette decorated with a red, white, and blue ribbon. A shopkeeper in the [hearth / heart] of Paris that sells the "scratch-and-sniff" stamp said it had a "bakery smell". The stamp was launched on Thursday to celebrate the day of the [peloton / patron] saint of bakers and [pastry / pasty] chefs. La Poste said it had an [initial / initials] print run of 594,000 copies. It also said French bakers [bake / baker] more than six billion baguettes every year.
The baguette is very close to the [hearths / hearts] of French people. France's President Emmanuel Macron once described it as [been / being] "250 grams of magic and perfection". La Poste wrote about the French [loaf / load] on its website. It called the baguette, "the bread of our [day / daily] lives, the symbol of our [gastronomy / gastronomic] , the jewel of our culture". It explained why the baguette was so popular. It said: "It is the [promise / promissory] of a delectable [sensory / sensor] experience. On view, it seduces with its golden crust….Fresh [at / from] the oven, its toasted scent [whets / wets] the appetite." The baguette was given UNESCO heritage status in 2022. La Poste called the bread, "an ambassador of the bakery craft". It said the baguette, "transcends [border / borders] to become an international icon".
