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California Baker Creates Life-sized Han Solo Out of Bread
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BENICIA, Calif. (AP) — Han Solo may be a hunk. But “Pan Solo” is a hunk of bread.
That’s what a bakery in the San Francisco Bay Area has dubbed its 6-foot (1.8 meter) bread
sculpture of the “Star Wars” char- acter as he appeared after being frozen in carbonite in “The
Empire Strikes Back.”
Hanalee Pervan and her mother, Catherine Pervan,
co-owners of One House Bakery in Benicia, California, spent weeks molding, baking and assembling the life-sized sculp- ture using wood and two types of dough, including a type of yeast- less dough with a higher sugar con- tent that will last longer.
The two worked at night, after the day’s business was done. The lovingly crafted details show Han Solo’s anguished face and his hands straining to reach out.
Hanalee said she might have gotten a bit obsessed.
“Mom made me leave it because I
was obsessing over the lips,” Hanalee Pervan told the New York Times. “She was like, ‘You need to walk away.’”
Creating Pan Solo was particu- larly meaningful, she told the paper, because she contracted COVID-19 in January 2021 and lost much of her senses of smell and taste.
“So just to find joy in a different part of food is really important,” she said.
The sculpture is now on display outside of the bakery, located about a half- hour’s drive north of San Francisco.
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