Baker
Family name
Baker New Ulm 1974.jpg
A baker
Meaning Baker (occupational)
Region of origin England

Baker is a common surname meaning "baker" and may refer to:

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  • Backer, a Norwegian surname
  • Bakker, a Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, or Dutch surname

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Baker

A baker is someone who makes, bakes and sells breads, rolls, biscuits or cookies, and/or crackers using an oven or other concentrated heat source. Cakes and similar foods may also be produced, as the traditional boundaries between what is produced by a baker as opposed to a pastry chef have blurred in recent decades. The place where a baker works is called a bakery.

Origin

The first group of people to bake bread were ancient Egyptians, around 8000 BC. During the Middle Ages, it was common for each landlord to have a bakery, which was actually a public oven; housewives would bring dough that they had prepared to the baker, who would tend the oven and bake them into bread. As time went on, bakers would also sell their own goods, and in that some bakers acted dishonestly, tricks emerged: for example, a baker might have trap door(s) in the oven or other obscured areas, that would allow a hidden small boy or other apprentice to take off some of the dough brought in for baking. Then the dishonest baker would sell bread made with the stolen dough as their own. This practice and others eventually lead to the famous regulation known as Assize of Bread and Ale, which prescribed harsh penalties for bakers that were found cheating their clients or customers. As a safeguard against cheating, under-filled orders, or any appearance of impropriety, bakers commonly began to throw in one more loaf of bread; this tradition now exists in the phrase "baker's dozen", which is 13.

The Baker

The Baker, in Indianapolis, Indiana, also known as Massala, is an apartment complex that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

References


Apartment Life

Apartment Life is the second studio album by American indie pop band Ivy, released in 1997 on Atlantic Records. It was re-released later the same year by Sony's 550 Music imprint, with remixed versions of several songs.

Apartment Life received predominantly positive reviews upon release, and is considered Ivy's signature album by several modern musical critics, who called it "underrated" and "under-appreciated".

Four singles were released from the album: "I've Got a Feeling", "The Best Thing", "This Is the Day", and "You Don't Know Anything". Lead single "I've Got a Feeling" was critically successful, but commercially unsuccessful. However, third single "This is the Day" received significant attention after appearing in the popular film There's Something About Mary. To promote the album, Ivy embarked on a small promotional tour, but were dropped from Atlantic at the beginning of the tour.

Conception

Background

The initial production for Apartment Life started shortly after the release of their debut album, Realistic. The process was overly long, according to Ivy, who mentioned that they had difficulty finding time to work on the album:

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