Article: Sarajevo Bakery Returns 15 Years After Occupation

MELISSA BLOCK
NPR All Things Considered
07-06-2007
Sarajevo Bakery Returns 15 Years After Occupation

Host: MELISSA BLOCK
Time 21:00-22:00 PM


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Now, a story about a long-delayed, sweet recovery from war. It has been 15 years since the Jadranka pastry shop was last open to sell its many layered confections in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia. The Bosnian War and the siege of Sarajevo put an end to the bakery, which was boarded up in 1992. The owner Aleksandar Bukvic moved to Canada. But this past Monday, Bukvic reopened the pastry shop on the same Sarajevo corner where his parents first started satisfying sweet teeth in 1956. And once again, he says, one of ...

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