🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Handwerksbäckerei

Pronunciation / Transliteration: hant-verks-bek-a-rye

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Artisan bakery/ˈɑːr.tɪ.zən ˈbeɪ.kər.i/
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Die Handwerksbäckerei stellt hervorragendes Sauerteigbrot her."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A commercial establishment where bread and other baked goods are made by hand using traditional methods and natural, high-quality ingredients.

    "They bought fresh sourdough bread from the new artisan bakery down the street."
  2. 2

    The trade, art, or business conducted by a skilled baker specializing in handcrafted, small-batch goods.

    "Her passion for artisan bakery led her to study fermentation techniques in France."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'artisan', derived from the Italian 'artigiano' via French, referring to a skilled manual worker who makes items by hand, and 'bakery', from Middle English 'baken' combined with the suffix '-ery'. Emerging prominently in late 20th-century culinary culture, the compound designates establishments that reject industrial mass-production in favor of traditional, small-batch baking techniques.

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