A Kitchen Notebook

A Kitchen Notebook

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Tell Your Story

What makes a good story and how we all have them.

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Java Ceridwen Bere
May 01, 2025
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On Tuesday morning I woke up to a new comment on one of my podcast episodes from several years ago.

‘Amazing story’.

It was a simple comment, but it moved me. The story they were referring to was of the baker and artist, Sharon Nagadya.

Sharon unexpectedly and tragically died in April two years ago.

I met Sharon in person only once, briefly, after our recor…

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