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Fresh take on baklava STANFORD RESIDENT BRINGS HER DELICATE TAKE ON TRADITIONAL SWEETS TO LOCAL MARKETS By Sarah Trauben
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Walnut baklava is a delicate, lightly sweet pastry when made by Heba Badran, a local entrepreneur.
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eba Badran offers local gourmets and marketgoers a taste of the cosmopolitan with her dainty baklava and orange tea cakes. On a recent morning at the Menlo Park Farmers Market, where Badran starting selling her desserts in 2008, Grace, a 10-year-old Palo Alto resident, sampled Badran’s light, airy orange tea cake. A playful smile spread about her face as she complimented Badran: “When I grow up, I want to be a chef.� “I got into this because I like to bake,� Badran replied warmly.
Starting the Stanford-based business 5KCuisine L.L.C. was not a forgone conclusion for Badran. Born in Egypt, she attended London secondary schools. For 10 years, she wielded her MBA as marketing executive with Proctor & Gamble in Egypt. In a recent interview, Badran said that while she was inspired by a long family line of “fantastic cooks without a single cooking class to their names,� she gives her natural, preservative-free desserts her own special touch. “My mother taught me to make baklava when I was 10. Egyptian baklava is sweeter, and she mixes nuts, but I’ve taken a more purist
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