Podcasts by The Cake Historian
NEW EPISODES IN 2019! The Cake Historian is a podcast exploring history and culture through the lens of cake. Much more than just the ingredients it is made from, cake is a symbol of celebration, a bringer of joy or pain. Cakes show up in literature, music, art, and on film. It is a food of love and loathing. And even, occasionally, a vehicle for murder.
This is not your usual food podcast.
Hosted by Jessica Reed, Cake Historian, and author of The Baker’s Appendix
Further podcasts by Jessica Reed
Podcast on the topic Gesellschaft und Kultur
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Laura Shapiro from 2018-09-24T06:36:25
I love this interview so damn much. Laura Shapiro, author most recently of WHAT SHE ATE: Six Remarkable Women & the Food That Tells Their Stories, and I talk cake, her career path, feminism, consci...
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Shomari Wills talks Mary Ellen Pleasant from 2018-08-13T05:23:38
Shomari Wills, author of BLACK FORTUNES: The story of the first six African-Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires, joins me to talk about Mary Ellen Pleasant, a woman who loved Pine...
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Shelley Miller, Graffiti and Conceptual Artist from 2018-07-23T16:12:41
Episode 3 features an interview with the Montreal-based artist Shelley Miller. Using frosting, hand-formed sugar tiles and food coloring, Shelly creates graffiti and murals that address power, femi...
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Jessie Sheehan, author of THE VINTAGE BAKER from 2018-07-06T18:07:31
Episode Two features an interview with Jessie Sheehan, author of the new book THE VINTAGE BAKER. She spoke with me from her home in Brooklyn, New York about the book and baking as well as everythin...
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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. —O. Wilde from 2018-06-22T18:39:09
Welcome to the first episode of The Cake Historian Podcast wherein I ramble extensively, introduce the "Cake of the Episode," talk a bit more about what you can expect, and end with an interview be...
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