On Sat, 5 May 2001, Charlie Bell wrote:
>
> > > > Questions:
> > > > -What's a patissiere? (pg 67)
> > >
> > > A pastry chef. (French word.)
> > >
> > > Julia
> >
> >
> > Are you sure? I thought it was a bakery that only did sweets (no bread or
> > buns).
> >
> > Marc
>
> That's a patisserie. :o)
>
> Charlie
I read it as "patisserie" at first, and then went to the book to check the
exact sentence before posting; in the context, "bakery" doesn't make
sense, but "pastry chef" does. "The sisters roamed plazas and narrow
shopping streets, eating sweets from a patissiere's stall...." I think it
more likely for a baker to have a stall than a bakery. (A bakery would
have a shop, rather than just a stall, but if it's just one baker, a stall
makes plenty of sense.)
Julia
