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Vol. 71 No. 29 | July 19, 2018 southphillyreview.com
‘Bread’ to last
With passing of Sarcone’s Bakery patriarch, family aims to keep traditions alive
By Grace Maiorano SOUTH PHILLY REVIEW
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s children in the bakery, Louis Sarcone Jr., and his sister, Linda, remember dozing off on flour bags before daybreak. Warmth from brick ovens and scents of raw dough made it strenuous to stay awake, but as years have passed, the siblings say peering at their father through tired eyes, they were unknowingly inheriting his approach to resolve – and recipes. On July 3, the patriarch of Sarcone’s Bakery, Louis Edmond Sarcone, died at the age of 83. Louis Sarcone, the third generation of the Sarcone lineage, lived to see the South Philly institution’s century-old milestone, as the tiny Italian bakery nestled on 9th Street was established in 1918 by his grandfather, Luigi. “The only thing that has changed since is the people making it … the ingredients are the same, just the hands are different,” Louis Sarcone Jr. said. Ten decades later, the business, still at the same location, still using those same ingredients, has not seemingly altered – a happening that didn’t unfold by chance but rather something strived toward by Louis Sarcone, his father and even his father. See SARCONE, page 12>>
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Louis Sarcone stands with his son, Louis Sarcone II, outside of the family’s bakery on 9th Street in this vintage family photo. The Sarcone family patriach died July 3 at 83.
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