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Meet Olga from Olgish Cakes in Leeds
National World - LocalTV
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16/08/2024
We meet Olga from Olgish Cakes whose passion for baking has risen since moving from Ukraine to Leeds in 2022.
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I like the result more probably than the process, when the people have a new emotion, a new
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taste in their life, yeah, because it's like new colours in your life, yeah.
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Olga Airomenko likes nothing more than to see the reaction from people trying her baked
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creations. Her Leeds baking venture is flourishing and feels like a world away
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from her 16-year job as a sales manager in Ukraine. The outbreak and escalation of war
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in the country disrupted her family's life more than once.
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February 2022 changed our life completely. For us it was second time because we are
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originally from Donbass and 2014 we just take our suitcase and we were in Bulgaria
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three months and lived in Odessa, it's near the sea, and then we moved to Kyiv and we just
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bought our house, finished our repair completely. In January we finished everything and we had a
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lot of plans and suddenly one morning changed everything. We wanted to move to England
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because of the language. It was very sudden, but we are so happy and grateful for our host
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because they gave us a new opportunity. A visit to a Chapel Allerton cafe with her
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host family ignited Olga's baking dream. We had an amazing afternoon tea and for me it was,
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it's really another life and I was sitting there and thought, oh it would be nice to do the same.
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Olga has gone on to complete two patisserie courses at Leeds City College and regularly
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attends local markets to showcase her treats. I wanted to share our recipe, Ukrainian recipe,
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our Ukrainian taste in Leeds. That's why I decided to start my own business with
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Ukrainian treats like honey cake, Kyiv cake. The most important reason to bake, I like to feed
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people. Our hosts know about that and I can't understand the word no. If I ask something,
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would you like this, better to say yes. On market a lot of people just came and I
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asked about would you like to try. I like this process when the person takes small pieces,
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tastes this and they feel completely different, they are so happy, they are
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surprised about the taste because it's unusual taste for England.
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A new and unique phrase inspired Olga's business name.
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Sometimes our hosts don't understand me and it was, okay, Olga, English,
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something between, it's Olgish. That's why it's Olgish cakes now.
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