The Life of the Greek Baker

My roommates and I had to do a group project for one of our classes and we chose to do ours on the "Life of a Greek Baker" 

We were given a great opportunity to go to our local bakery and watch them- at 5am mind you!- make the dough for their breads and pastries

Not only did they let us make our own frappes but they also let us try any of their products that our heart desired! (Jen, Laura, and I)

Here we all are with Alexandra (the daughter of the baker Lucas) She is a 20 year old working two jobs and going to school for journalism. 

Our only tasks were to try all of the pasteries that we wanted plus unload the pastries as they came out of the oven. 

We learned so much from our time at the Bakery- things such as you go to school for 3 years after high school to become a baker, the favorite items for Lucas the owner to eat are all of the "broken ones" and that the business has to all be family run since in the past he has lost $10,000 from hiring out to different cashiers! On the bright side his bakery is doing very well in the economic hard times of Greece.

We plan on opening our own bakery in St. Joe Minnesota!

As for the rest of my weekend I went to Naflion (the old capital of Greece) and Olympia. Both were very beautiful and I plan on posting photos soon!

Enjoy the fall for me,

Megan