Vegan bread of PECK

In the basement of Entetsu Department Store, you can see a stand of PECK selling their bread sometimes. I had misunderstood for a long time that it was a bakery, but it is an Italian delicatessen shop founded in 1883.

Today was the last day of their sales period this time, so I bought two kinds of vegan bread, focaccia and ciabatta. You can see focaccia in many Italian restaurant in Japan, but focaccia of PECK look different from others. They are brown and soaked in olive oil.

I bought one during the lunch time. In the evening, immediately before eating it, I noticed that some oil had oozed from focaccia and was glittering.

As I ate it, I didn’t feel that it was too oily. I enjoyed the flavor of juicy olive oil and simple salty taste of bread.

The other bread ciabatta is also traditional Italian bread. According to the explanation in PECK, ciabatta means a slipper.

As ciabatta is flat, it may be easy to make a sandwich with it, but I cut it and ate with a tomato soup. The cross section looked like this. It tasted a little sweeter than baguette though I had imagined that they had similar tastes.

In addition to a tomato, the soup contained leftover vegetables such as dried radish, shiitake mushroom, Japanese mustard spinach, and potato and was seasoned with salt and soy sauce. This is one of the simplest dishes I usually have.

PECK has some permanent shops in Japan. The nearest shop from Hamamatsu is the one in JR Nagoya Takashimaya. I like traditional European bread. Simple is the best!