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Meet 'Pan Solo', a life-sized Han Solo

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A sculpture of 'Star Wars' character Han Solo frozen in carbonite and made entirely of bread, created by One House
Bakery co-owner and head baker Hannalee Pervan and her mother, co-owner Catherine Pervan. – Photo: AP

Han Solo may be a hunk. But "Pan Solo" is a hunk of bread.

That's what a bakery in the San Francisco Bay Area has dubbed its 6-foot (1.8 meter) bread sculpture
of the Star Wars character as he appeared after being frozen in carbonite in The Empire Strikes Back.
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Hannalee Pervan and her mother, Catherine Pervan, co-owners of One House Bakery in Benicia,
California, spent weeks molding, baking and assembling the life-sized sculpture using wood and two
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The two worked at night, after the day's business was done. The lovingly crafted details show Han
Solo's anguished face and his hands straining to reach out.

'I love you'. 'I dough.' Daughter and mother team Hannalee and Catherine Pervan (seen here) spent
more than 100 hours manually creating the life-sized dough replica of Star Wars’ frozen Han Solo. –
Photo: AFP

Hannalee said she might have gotten a bit obsessed.

"Mom made me leave it because I was obsessing over the lips,” Hannalee Pervan told the New York
Times. "She was like, ‘You need to walk away.’”

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Creating Pan Solo was particularly meaningful, she told the paper, because she contracted Covid-19
in January 2021 and lost much of her senses of smell and taste.

"So just to find joy in a different part of food is really important,” she said.

The sculpture is now on display outside of the bakery, located about a half-hour's drive north of San
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The mother and daughter used a Harrison Ford mask to create a mold for the face but everything else
was sculpted by hand. – Photo: AP

Pan Solo is the bakery's entry in the annual Downtown Benicia Main Street Scarecrow Contest. The
public will get to vote on their favorites from among more than two dozen creations entered by local
businesses.

The Pervans, who are big science-fiction and fantasy fans, entered another Star Wars-themed
creation in 2020 featuring the Mandalorian and Baby Yoda.

Unfortunately, Pan Solo won't last forever. The dough eventually will be composted, not eaten.

So as a wise Jedi might warn: Don't use the forks, Luke. – AP

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