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P.D. Mexico is not just a country, it’s an ancestral encyclopedia written in flavors. Those who do not travel only taste a single sentence of the story.

Birote is a type of bread made with sourdough from Guadalajara, Jalisco. The word birote is inspired by the surname of Camille Pirotte, a Belgian baker, who arrived in Guadalajara with the French troops of Maximilian I, in 1864.

There are more than 500 bakeries in Guadalajara and in the urban area in general around 1,200 that produce salted birote. A bakery handles an average of five to eight packages of daily production; one package comprises 500 rolls.

As popular, there are two types: salted birote and fleischmann. The salado is short and is used for torta ahogada, while the fleischmann is used for other "tortas or lonches". A birote measures from 15 cm to 1.5 meters.

If you are visiting Guadalajara visit bakeries such as Las Novedades, on Mezquitán street; the Triunfo, in private children of Molquecho; and Santa Teresita, catalogued as the most traditional bakery colony and above all the bakers in La Central Camionera Vieja de Guadalajara.
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