Bakers' shops are also frequent, though arrangements for grinding and baking appear to have formed part of every large family establishment.
The corporation of bakers was organized and made more effective for the service of the public. The internal trade of Italy was powerfully stimulated by the careful maintenance and extension of the different lines of road.
Many bakers have a book of themes that can be browsed.
Picumnus, a rustic deity (like Picus) and husband of Pomona, is specially concerned with the manuring of the soil and hence called Sterquilinus, while Pilumnus is the inventor of the pounding of grain, so named from the pestle (pi/um) used by bakers.
Some bakers offer both cakes as part of a package.