Le Pain Quotidien - Alain Coumont's Communal Table - Memories and Recipes. My primary goal was to bake real bread full bodied flavourful and wholesome made using a sourdough starter the kind of bread that increases top quality wheat. Then I filled the communal table with ingredients that told the stories of the people who made them. As a trained chef I have been able to give shape and content taste and flavour to all of these elements while respecting their clarity and originality. There is wear to the edges of the front and back of the dust jacket with a tear at the top in the back.