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Beirut to Athens: Delicacies of 'La Linda'

All sweetness and temptation, this café, bakery and pastry shop thousands of kilometers from Beirut offers mixed fragrances with a hint of sweet Lebanese melancholy.

Beirut to Athens: Delicacies of 'La Linda'

A beautiful bond between Isabella Aquilina and her mother, María Teresa. (Rights reserved)

The effectiveness of social media was needed to stumble upon La Linda Bakery by (fortunate) chance. It defines itself as a "Bakery and café in the city of Manantiales in Uruguay." The two founders are María Teresa Arida and her daughter, Isabella Aquilina.A few small researches later, the two women are on the line, thousands of kilometers from Lebanon. Arida was born in Lebanon and left in 1975. She had been a student for a few years at the Collège Notre Dame de Nazareth, then later at the Saint Joseph Univesity. Common friends and memories instantly found, Arida soon feels very much at home, even if, as she recounts with that charming accent now from elsewhere, she has long left it, and her adventure has led her to different places and occupations, all equally enriching.Marie Thérèse Arida on the cover of Vogue Brazil. (Rights...
The effectiveness of social media was needed to stumble upon La Linda Bakery by (fortunate) chance. It defines itself as a "Bakery and café in the city of Manantiales in Uruguay." The two founders are María Teresa Arida and her daughter, Isabella Aquilina.A few small researches later, the two women are on the line, thousands of kilometers from Lebanon. Arida was born in Lebanon and...
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