Gama - ガマ

材木座で気になるパン屋さんを見つけたのはしばらく前のことだ。水曜・木曜は「本日仕込み中でお休み」と書かれていて、初めて店内を覗いてみた金曜の午後には商品があらかた売れた後だった。2回目は周到に土曜の開店早々の時間を狙って出向いた。食パンは巨大な1.5斤サイズのヨモギあるいはオレンジピール入りが840円、人気の中心と覚しきフォッカッチャは小さめな1個が300円台、後はクルミパンなどが量り売りで、価格は高めだ。買いに来る人たちもそれは心得たもの。漂白したような白いパンは一切なし、粉と酵母を相手に奮闘しているパン屋さんという印象ですべて手作り感覚、関西出身らしき若い二人が店を切り盛りしている。店は去年の夏に始めたそうだ。
感心したのは食パンならオレンジピールの香りが3日目くらいの方が立ち上がってくるみたいで、黴びたりしない力強さがある。鎌倉から逗子にかけての名だたるパン屋はあらかた試したが、住まいにも近いこのガマが僕にとってはベストだ。


I saw a bakery a while ago at Zaimokuza which made me curious. The sign said “closed today in preparation” on Wednesday and Thursday, and so I first tried it in Friday afternoon to find most items were already gone. I made my second attempt more carefully Saturday morning around their opening time. A rather large loaf of bread (x1.5 size) was 840 Yen with orange peel or mugwort flavor, their main item looked like foccacia that was over 300 Yen, and the rest was variety brown bread, no white ones really, and it appeared as a bakery to struggle and live with flour and yiest. A young couple started this shop in July last year who seemed originally from Kyoto/Osaka.
What was most impressive to me was the flavor of orange peel stood out more clearly in a few days and the bread did not show any signs of decline or mold. I tried almost all reputed bakeries from Kamakura to Zushi, and I think Gama is the best choice for me and I am glad it is exactly in my neighborhood.