PITTSBURGH, PA — Last year, it was Beetlejuice. This year it’s Batman.
On Sunday, Mancini’s Bread will reveal its Batman-inspired bread in honor of actor Michael Keaton’s appearance for the launch of the Pittsburgh Walk of Fame. The bread will be displayed at Mancini’s Strip District location because of its proximity to the nearby Terminal, where the Walk of Fame will be unveiled on Monday.
Along with Keaton, the first people to get Walk of Fame stars will be noted jazz musician George Benson, pioneering journalist Nellie Bly, industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, conservationist Rachel Carson, Pirates Hall-of-Famer and humanitarian Roberto Clemente, Fred Rogers of “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood” fame, polio vaccine pioneer Dr. Jonas Salk, influential artist Andy Warhol and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson.
This is the second year Mancini’s has honored Keaton, a Pittsburgh native, with Halloween bread art featuring characters he has portrayed in movies. The Batman bread is expected to measure four feet by four feet and weight about 200 pounds after four hours of baking.
“I love to do this because Keaton exemplifies Pittsburgh,” Mancini’s owner Nick Mancini Hartner said. “We are celebrating 100 years of Mancini’s bakery next year and looking for any opportunity to tie our bread art with the city we love.”
Mancini’s Bread has served the Pittsburgh region, family style, since 1926. Mancini’s Bakery bakes more than 10,000 loaves a day with a team of 48 Pittsburghers, using most of the same old-world techniques that James Mancini devised back in 1926. Mancini’s still bakes 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, at its original location in McKees Rocks, now with a retail bakery in the Strip District.