What about all the academics, bureaucrats, pastry chefs, rodeo cowboys, cabbies, carpenters and lumberjacks nobody's ever heard of?

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The secrets of Viennese signature apple strudel and chocolate cake Sacher are well-known among Lviv pastry chefs but syrnyk, a moist pie made from fresh cottage cheese, is a local specialty that many guests to the city take back home.

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And if like me, you grew up spoiled on real New York style cheesecake, well the mail order variety is better than any you will find pretty much anywhere on earth outside the five boroughs, much to the chagrin of many respected pastry chefs who try and fail to outperform it.

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