Talk:Acme Bread Company

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I was going to make this article just about Acme but I got carried away when I realized you have to tell the history of sourdough bread in San Francisco and America's artisan bread movement in order to give context. If people write articles about some other bakeries we might want to split the history section into a separate article. Someone really should expand the Boudin article, and also write about the history of Parisian, Toscana, and Colombo. Wikidemo 03:21, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Carried away? You going for GA within 3 days of creation? :-))) FlagSteward 03:22, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
Dude, seriously. I just had the fortune of staying with my sister in Berkeley one block away from Acme, and while I love their bread like I love life, this article is pretty silly. Couldn't the background just be put into an article "History of California Bread", similar to the one on California wine? 69.136.86.237 (talk) 02:43, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Diane Dexter was a pastry assistant at Chez Panisse, not pastry chef. Lindsey Remolif Shere was the only pastry chef from the restaurant's founding, in 1971, until her retirement in 1997. (She, her daughter Thérèse, and their friend Kathleen Stewart -- also once at Chez Panisse -- opened yet another bakery, the Downtown Bakery and Creamery, in Healdsburg, California, in 1987.)75.211.216.241 (talk) 07:58, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
You don't happen to have any sources for that, do you? The published source cited in the article calls her the pastry chef. If that's inaccurate we should correct it but we really need to go on published sources. I did add your comment about Downtown Bakery and Creamery to the Chez Panisse article under Legacy. If you do know the inside story would you mind checking that one over too for accuracy? We can't really contradict published sources without some proof, but if we know that something is wrong we can probably look and find it. I don't have any agenda or vested interest here, just trying to get the story right. Thanks, Wikidemo (talk) 08:15, 6 February 2008 (UTC)