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panetteria e pasticceria
How to say "bakery" in Italian? Panetteria o pasticceria? What's the difference between these two words?
Mar 2, 2012 10:05 AM
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panetteria is bakery
pasticceria is a cake shop
In a panetteria you can also find sweets and cakes usually, but a pasticceria is a more specific shop for cakes, pastries, chocolate...
March 2, 2012
pasticceria = pastry shop / cake shop ( where they make and sell cakes, sweets and biscuits but in Italy it is common to find the cafe-pastry shop)
panetteria = bakery ( sale of bread and sometimes even sweet biscuits and pizza)
March 3, 2012
/panetteria/ is obviously from /pane/.
/pasticceria/ is from /pasticcio/, and from /pasticcino/, where
/pasticcio/ has two meanings (one meaning is : complex food preparation),
and /pasticcino/ is just the kind of sweet /pasticcio/ (Eng.: pastry).
Don't confuse with /pasticcione/,it has a completely different meaning!
March 2, 2012
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