"Um, I'm the last person to judge there." He gestures for Beane to follow him inside. "I get most of my practice in with the chickens," he adds. "You can borrow them for that purpose if you want."

Inside, the pastries are cooling. Thanks to the oven, it's more temperate inside the building than outside, but not as warm as it would be if there was a fire in a fireplace, which there is not. The door on the front of the clay oven is shut tightly as more loaves bake in it.

"Pick whatever you'd like," he says with a gesture at the tables full of baked goods. The vast majority is loaves of bread, but there are also various cakes, pastries, and buns.