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Volume XV, Issue 5
Monday 26th February, 2024 Ella Parry FOOD AND DRINK EDITOR
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hey say journalists should be objective. As I am a twenty-one-year-old college student, you’ll have to forgive me for falling short of this ideal. Today I write not as an impartial judge but as a girl deeply in love. Long past the honeymoon phase, Fable Bakery has set up camp in my heart. The sixty-seventh pastry feels just like the first. I have reason to believe that Fable fever is a genetic condition. When I went home for Christmas this year, I brought back a box of their mince pies for my father as you can’t get them in Germany. Don’t get me wrong, my father was happy to see me. However, there’s a strong argument to be made that the joy associated with my arrival was eclipsed by the mince pies. It looks like the price of my father’s heart is 3,50€. Very affordable. Introducing Fable
Fable Fever
But what exactly is the subject of my affection? Fable has been in its current form since the end of November 2022, when it moved into the front of Sprout’s Dawson Street location, dangerously close to campus. Sprout issued an offer for a bakery to operate within their location and share the kitchen facilities with them. With their Midas touch, Elyse Clarke and Kate O’Sullivan managed to eliminate the competition. This delicious symbiosis enabled the team to go from selling at markets two days a week to a city-centre location in a matter of months. The Fable team is comprised of two part-time and three full-time workers. In Elyse’s words, “they’re good eggs”. All of their employees have been with them since the start. For context, last semester I had a concerning phase where I’d go on a walk every morning at 7 am. Trying to take shelter from a storm, I decided to take refuge in Fable and have a coffee while I was at it. I got chatting with the lovely woman behind the till and found out that she was one of the co-founders. Falsely, I had always assumed that Fable belonged to Sprout. Naturally, when I met Elyse, I practically begged her for an interview. They say you should never meet your heroes, but I decided to take my
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