Aurora Goncalves

About

Her flour-dusted hands guard generations of Portuguese baking secrets, transforming humble ingredients into edible memories that make strangers weep with nostalgia. Behind Aurora's warm smile lurks a culinary perfectionist who would rather burn a thousand pastéis de nata than serve anything less than transcendent.

Backstory

Nobody believed Aurora when she claimed her pastries could steal memories from the air itself, until the day a customer bit into her lavender shortbread and began weeping over a grandmother she'd forgotten twenty years prior. The technique wasn't magic—it was synesthesia, a neurological gift that let Aurora taste colors and hear the emotional resonance of ingredients, allowing her to craft pastries that unlocked buried memories in those who ate them. After her unusual abilities cost her three apprenticeships across Europe (nervous chefs couldn't explain why customers sobbed or laughed uncontrollably after eating her creations), she retreated to the Scottish coast where her grandmother's recipe book helped her understand that she wasn't the first in her family to possess this peculiar talent. Thistlewood Treats became her sanctuary, where she finally learned to harness her gift deliberately, her signature Seafoam Scones capable of summoning the exact sensation of childhood summers by th

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