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Nancy's Story "Cook with Love"

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Digital Story from the Bawso Stories Project. Inspired by a storytelling workshop at the National Waterfront Museum, Nancy's story "Cook with Love" is about the connections between the love she sees going into the making of bara brith and her grandfather's cakes.  English transcript: For us guys, we don’t think too much, but the person who is in the kitchen making it, the ingredients, the time it takes, and I’m just looking at my recipe here and I’m thinking, oh, am I going to be that patient to wait for 90 minutes for bara brith to come through? Then the longer it has stood for the better it tastes. And for me it’s about you know that kind of love. My grandfather, when I was a little young girl watching him, because he used to bake cakes. And he had his own small café and people used to just come and buy the cakes immediately from the oven. He used to make queen cakes but not really queen cakes. Maybe an advanced version of queen cakes, he used to make, you know, smaller kind of those cupcakes – queen cakes. But then another bigger version almost the size of bara brith. And people would get slices. But other people tried to do it, it doesn’t come out the same way. You know and that’s what I was thinking. It’s not just about mixing things and putting things in the oven. The love that I saw him putting into that process. That’s why I crave bara brith and then thinking about it, you can’t get bara brith in London you know. It’s the Welsh love I’m thinking about. Especially Wales as a nation of sanctuary. A welcoming nation and you talk to people on the streets, and you hear people saying, especially who have come from other places over England that, oh, people in Wales, they are very warm. You talk to strangers; they talk to you at the bus stop. They have got time to talk. Somehow on the street someone will be talking with you, talking about the weather. Talk about things. They are just warm people. And that warmth, I feel it in the cake somehow, yeah. So I just feel it in the cake and it’s like this is the Welsh life and in the Welsh way of spreading love across. And that is what as human beings we should actually be like, you know, open our hearts out and share what we have. So that is just my story.

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University of South Wales 2024
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14/1/2025
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18/10/2024
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