A Pictorial History
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Using His Loaf Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Unal Nas, a Turkish engineer who arrived in Germany as a guest worker in 1966, opened his first shop selling pita bread in 1975, after cashing in his savings to buy a German bakery. Seen here in two photgraphs a generation apart; he's the kid in the cap, above, and the doting dad, below
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