When it comes to fatty cakes and pastries, chewing gum, chocolates or oils, Harfouch has another trick up his sleeve.

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Last winter she had an idea for a new business -- delivering handmade cakes and pastries, on just three hours' notice, anywhere in New York City, seven days a week, 24 hours a day.

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The company now operates 44 bakeries that produce breads, buns, rolls, snack cakes, and pastries, which are distributed fresh to foodservice and retail customers in the Southeastern, Southwestern, mid-Atlantic states and frozen to national foodservice and retail customers.

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She said her intolerance to gluten - found in bread, cakes, biscuits and pastries - had dramatically affected her diet.

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Outside of festival times, the quiet village offers a dose of understated Algarvian charm: sun-baked white houses feature Moorish design details, such as coloured bars around the doorways, while the petite central square is flanked by a lovely 16th-century church and a tiny cafe selling delicious homemade pastries, cakes and ice cream.

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Homemade pastries and cakes are served at breakfast.

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The products sold were savoury pastries, cookies and cakes - including a delicious Pudsey cake, with money raised going to Children in Need and Childline.

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