Maxokk: Gozo's food institution

"Ma! Xokk!", "Ma! Xokk!" The cry of the little boy echoed round the whole of Nadur, in Gozo. The boy had been fiddling with the dynamo of his bicycle when something sparked and he was jolted with the current going through his tiny frame.

The boy survived. But so did his cry for his mummy. Not only did it become his nickname, three generations on 'Maxokk', is the laqam (moniker) of the family, and the name of a tiny bakery, with a fame which goes beyond its village and its island.

For this is no ordinary bakery, they don't bake bread here: instead every day they churn out Gozitan ftiras all day long, seven days a week.

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