Panetteria, Panettiere

Usually the term panetteria was used to indicate a bread shop where the bread was baked on the premises. You could discover the location following the irresistible smell of freshly made bread inviting you to buy. Unfortunately many of these shops keep the name, but are only outlets for selling all sorts of baked goods like bread, cakes, etc., made elsewhere.

I have a very fond memory of going to the baker to buy fresh bread in the morning. The bread was sold by the kilo and the hand-made loaves didn’t always reach that weight. To make it up the baker would just cut a piece of bread from another loaf, called l’aggiunta, which regularly ended up in my watery mouth before arriving home.