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For baker and content creator Kendra Groves, food has always been more than sustenance - it has been a stage, a canvas, and sometimes, a lifeline.

Her journey into Manchester’s food world didn’t begin in a classroom but thousands of miles away in Australia, where she worked as one of the country’s leading cake decorators.

“It was one of the biggest gigs you could get,” she recalls. “When I moved to Manchester, I couldn’t find the same kind of role, so I started baking instead.”

Her first step into the city’s food scene was at Black Milk in the Northern Quarter , where she honed her craft as a baker. The transition wasn’t easy, but it opened doors. Within two years, she was running her own spot—Factory Bake, a small but wildly popular bakery that quickly developed a cu

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