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Late-night experiments, lifelong dreams, family recipes passed down through smoke and memory. Meet the people behind India's most loved bakeries.
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Legacy BakeryFrom a One-Kitchen Refugee Home to 17 Shops
Four Arora brothers. An 8×8 foot shop in a North Delhi market. A family that arrived in Delhi with nothing after Partition. This is how you build a bakery empire — one patient decade at a time.
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Home BakerFrom a Childhood TV Habit to a Bedroom Bakery
Deep Bawa watched cooking shows as a kid, spent years in Taj hotels and earned an MBA, then converted his Lajpat Nagar bedroom into a bakery. The Pastry Man was built before it had a name.
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Home BakerThe Oven Nobody Was Using
Namita Zutshi spotted an unused oven in her mother's kitchen during a routine visit. She asked to take it home. What followed was a home bakery that found its footing in a pandemic.
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Home BakerTrading Restaurant Hours for Her Own Kitchen
Le Cordon Bleu London, Yauatcha Delhi, The Leela — then Sana Nair made a decision. If she was going to work endless hours regardless, they should be building something of her own.
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Legacy BakeryThe Physics Student Who Quit to Make Cakes
Bani Nanda was at Gargi College studying physics when a hotel internship changed everything. A Le Cordon Bleu Paris degree, a shoulder injury, and her grandmother's wish later — Miam Patisserie was born.
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Legacy BakeryNinety-Nine Years on the Same Block
Wenger's has survived an empire ending, Partition, and every food trend Delhi has ever had. Nearly a century on, it still sells the same rum balls from the same Connaught Place address.
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