Boudin Bakery
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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Food manufacture |
| Founded | 1849 |
| Founder(s) | Isidore Boudin |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
| Area served | California |
| Key people | Fernando Padilla (Master baker) |
| Products | Baked goods |
| Owner(s) | Lou Giraudo Sharon Duvall |
| Website | www.boudinbakery.com |
Boudin Bakery (Anglicized pronunciation: "boo-DEEN") is a bakery based in San Francisco, California, known for its sourdough bread (self-proclaimed as the "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 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 California Adventure Park, where tourists are given a tour about how sourdough bread is produced. The bakery still uses the same starter yeast-bacteria culture it developed during the California Gold Rush.
The first outlet outside of California at the Yorktown Center mall in Lombard, Illinois closed in mid-2009, after about a year.[2]
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A rack of bread in the flagship bakery in Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco
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[edit] References
- ^ a b Pia Sarkar (30 August 2010). "Rising at the wharf: Owners of historic Boudin Bakery, home of the original San Francisco sourdough bread, to open flagship store". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/10/BUGITCMI9J1.DTL. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
- ^ Jennifer Olvera. "Boudin brings San Francisco sourdough to the 'burbs". The Daily Herald. http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=222868. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
[edit] Further reading
- "Boudin Bakery: An Anecdotal Chronology". Boudin Bakery. 13 March 2007. http://www.boudinbakery.com/usercontent/XImages/pdfs/BoudinHistory.pdf. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
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- Bakeries of the United States
- Bakery/café restaurants
- Companies based in San Francisco, California
- Companies established in 1849
- Disney California Adventure Park
- Cuisine of the San Francisco Bay Area
- Walt Disney Parks and Resorts restaurants
- Privately held companies based in California
- Visitor attractions in San Francisco, California
