Boudin Bakery
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The Boudin Bakery (pronounced "bo-DEEN") is a bakery situated in San Francisco, California known for its sourdough bread (called Original San Francisco Sourdough French Bread). It was established in 1849 by Isidore Boudin, son of a family of master bakers from Burgundy, France, by blending the sourdough prevalent among miners in the Gold Rush with French techniques.
Steven Giraudo, an artisan baker from Italy whose first job in America was at Boudin, bought the bakery in 1941 but later sold it.[1] After a series of ownership changes the bakery was bought by two of Giraudo's sons through an investment bank.[1]
The bakery has locations on Fisherman's Wharf near San Francisco Bay, Disney's California Adventure Park, and 30 other cafés scattered throughout California. The main bakery in San Francisco is in the Richmond District on the corner of 10th Avenue and Geary Boulevard. The Boudin Bakery hosts the attraction The Bakery Tour at Disney's California Adventure, where tourists are given a tour about how sourdough bread is produced. The bakery still uses the same "starter" yeast culture it developed during the California Gold Rush. In addition, they recently opened a bakery in Yorktown Shopping Center in Lombard Illinois, making it their first store outside California borders.
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- ^ a b Pia Sarkar. "Rising at the wharf", San Francisco Chronicle, May 10, 2005. Retrieved on 2007-09-27.
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