Cake Zine #8 Spoiled Rotten

Cake Zine is a literary magazine exploring culture, history, and the margins through food.

In this issue:

Spoiled Rotten explores spoilage and the spoiled, digging into what’s stale, overripe, curdled, wasted, and reborn in food culture. A pocket-sized magazine of essays, recipes, and art spanning the unsavoury realities of cheesemaking to the wine purchasing habits of The Real Housewives. Highlights include a private chef’s tell-all on the excess and absurdity of cooking for billionaires (plus the sharks that follow their superyachts for scraps), a cultural critique of how Western food systems' pursuit of convenience has eroded our tolerance for discomfort and by extent, deliciousness, and a meditation on the ghost of the Burger King at the U.S. military’s Bagram Air Base. Room service, chicha de jora spit-exchanges, dumpster diving, human composting, the time-honoured tradition of throwing rotten-tomatoes, a special themes crossword and more! This issue also features recipes that rescue ingredients past their prime, including an ingenious cursed custard by Oliver Costello of TOAD Bakery, a black sesame banana bun by Kendra Vaculin and a molten chocolate panade by Andrew Janjigian. 

New York, U.S.A, 16x8.5cm, 204 pages, Biannual