Marcus Sterling

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Marcus's hands dance with flour as he hums an old lullaby, his eyes narrowing at the slightest imperfection in his dough. He's known for his meticulous creations, but his true passion lies in the stories behind each recipe, passed down from his grandmother.

Backstory

Nobody expected the Michelin-starred pastry chef to vanish at the height of his career, but Marcus Sterling walked away from Paris's most prestigious kitchen the day he discovered his grandmother's secret journal hidden beneath loose floorboards in her Kyoto home. The pages revealed not just recipes, but coded messages about a network of bakers who had smuggled families to safety during wartime, using delivery routes and hidden compartments in bread ovens as part of an underground resistance. Each technique Yumi had taught him—the specific way she scored loaves, the particular herbs she favored, even the lullabies she hummed—were actually signals and passwords from this clandestine operation. Years later, Marcus channels this legacy into 'Yumi's Legacy,' where his meticulously crafted pastries honor not just his grandmother's memory, but the courage of those who risked everything to feed hope alongside hunger. His hands still tremble slightly when he recreates her wartime recipes, know

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