<mobileonly>[[File:Raymond Calvel.jpg|thumb|Raymond Calvel (1913–2005), professor of baking]]</mobileonly>
If a breadmaking expert of this stature said that poolish was of Polish origin, the hardly anyone then few people saw the reason to question this assertion. Well, alright, but who was this supposedly Polish baron with a rather non-Polish-sounding name, credited with bringing from Austria to France the pre-ferment which gave rise to French baguettes?
== The Baker in Spite of Himself ==