Flour Power: by Felicity Spector

Flour Power: by Felicity Spector

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Flour Power: by Felicity Spector
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Baking on the front line

Baking on the front line

I met bakers in Kharkiv and the deoccupied territories who described what it was like working during intense bombing

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Jun 26, 2023
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The young woman in black, making chocolate cookies, looked barely old enough to be out of college. But Tanya, who runs this small craft bakery in Kharkiv, told me how her friend had lived and worked through the very worst of the Russian shelling - when the attacks were so intense that it was too dangerous to be above ground. So she slept on the floor of…

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