Gevorg Avetisjan

“Bring tomorrow, ok? So, my sister baked. I bought three boxes and wrote on them with a fix – honey cake. I tell it in brief – everyone wanted three daily. A that time I already had the courage to offer to other cafés. And my sister still baked at home in a small kitchen unit. I took first two cakes and went to Ostrava. I told myself that it would be better in a bigger city. I gave the cakes to the café and nothing happed in next two days. Then the owner called that he urgently needs me to bring one cake. I told him I will bring it and I went with one cake from Frýdek to Ostrava. I knew I was losing money because of the travel but I told myself that over time it will be better. I arrived home and the second one from the café called that he urgently needs another one. I told him that he has to wait, but he answered that he will not take it if I bring it late. So, two hours later I again took a cake and brough it there. I told my sister that we need to make a stockpile that she should bake more and put them aside that they will perhaps sell. And she: ‘What if they won’t? Should we throw such costs to the bin?’”

“I told my sister to try to bake our favourite honey cake which is an Armenian speciality. We had a family recipe. We put it into a pasteboard and put a Frýdek-Místek newspapers over it. There was a bar in Frýdek which was run by my friend. I came to him and asked him whether he would like to try homemade cake. He: ‘What is it?’ Me: ‘Honey cake, try it, you will see.’ He said it should be at least hygienic, in a box. I told him: ‘Look, I do not know whether you sell, but a box costs twenty korunas and I cannot invest. After you sell, I next time do it.’ I practically gave him it for free to try it. It was a huge cake, one kilo and half. Imagine, I gave it to him at ten in the morning and he called me at three in the afternoon that not even a crumb is left over and that I should bring another one. I told him that it is not possible that we need to prepare it, it will be the next day. It is really hard to prepare the honey cake.”