Daria Sito-Sucic
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/ 6 July 2007

Long-lost Sarajevo cake shop rises from ashes of war

Sarajevo had been dreaming of it for 15 years: a moist, dense cube of thin pastry and hazelnut cream, skilfully layered, then drizzled with chocolate glaze by the master patissiers of the Jadranka bakery. The pastry shop was a Sarajevo landmark, and so was its signature ”Bohem” cake. Boarded up when war erupted in 1992 and the Bosnian capital came under siege, Jadranka was lamented but never forgotten.