Accomplished bread bakers say that a precise temperature is crucial when kneading dough.

And since the brothers were strictly bread bakers, they hired cake bakers, who belonged to another union, to make the pastries.

The girls are domestic servants, bread bakers, prostitutes.

There are no display cases or doors dividing the bread bakers from the bread eaters.

Other days, the bread baker is less Jehovah and more a guardian of the tradition that has always softened the hard edges of the city.

Being a professional bread baker does tie him down.

Another guest, one of Washington's best amateur bread bakers, always brings a few magnificently braided loaves.

Some artisanal bread bakers would add it to their bread dough.

"The blank canvas for a bread baker is to make a perfect white loaf," she says.

Now, there are a dozen bread bakers to choose from.