Elias Livadaras 9

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Elias Livadaras is a name that echoes through the narrow streets of Ermoupoli, Syros, where his family's bakery has been turning out flaky tiropites and koulourakia for four generations. Locals know to come before 8am for the warm sesame bread rings, still fragrant with mahlab and mastiha. Papa-Livadaras works the wood-fired oven himself, his hands scarred from decades of sliding metal peels under golden phyllo. Visitors often find him outside during summer, cracking pistachios and telling stor…