Candy Land. Cake Zine Volume 5:
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Cake Zine’s fifth issue, Candy Land, unwraps candy’s connections to the literal and metaphorical land. It’s ninety-six pages of essays,recipes, fiction, and art, including:• Conversations with the doomsday preppers prioritizing pleasure at the end of the world by Amy Rose Spiegel• An essay by Leslie Jamison on building candy houses to steer her daughter away from the wild woods of restriction. • An exploration of raver kandi culture in late stage EDM by Simon Wu • A reflection on how climate change is impacting farming for cacao, grapes, and other fruits by eco futurist Lily ConsueloSaporta Tagiuri• An interview with flavor scientist Dr. Arielle Johnson on the scientific reasons behind our blue raspberry cravings byDominique Evans • Recipes for dirt ‘n’ worms tiramisu, crunchy alegría, and crystalline kohakutou by Zoe Denenberg, Fabián von HauskeValtierra, and Rie McClenny• Sweet and surreal fiction by Sanaë Lemoine, Puloma Ghosh, and Celina Baljeet Basra• A timeline of the many iterations of Candy Land (the iconic board game, not the magazine) and how these changes mirrorreal world events by Elaine Mao• Plus a reflection on growing up in Hershey’s corporate candy town, a dissection of the contemporary tanghulu trendbeyond TikTok, a brief but insidious history of banana candy, a dumpster diving trip for Theo’s chocolate in the gentrifyingPacific Northwest, an ode to aspartame, and more.
Cake Zine’s fifth issue, Candy Land, unwraps candy’s connections to the literal and metaphorical land. It’s ninety-six pages of essays,recipes, fiction, and art, including:• Conversations with the doomsday preppers prioritizing pleasure at the end of the world by Amy Rose Spiegel• An essay by Leslie Jamison on building candy houses to steer her daughter away from the wild woods of restriction. • An exploration of raver kandi culture in late stage EDM by Simon Wu • A reflection on how climate change is impacting farming for cacao, grapes, and other fruits by eco futurist Lily ConsueloSaporta Tagiuri• An interview with flavor scientist Dr. Arielle Johnson on the scientific reasons behind our blue raspberry cravings byDominique Evans • Recipes for dirt ‘n’ worms tiramisu, crunchy alegría, and crystalline kohakutou by Zoe Denenberg, Fabián von HauskeValtierra, and Rie McClenny• Sweet and surreal fiction by Sanaë Lemoine, Puloma Ghosh, and Celina Baljeet Basra• A timeline of the many iterations of Candy Land (the iconic board game, not the magazine) and how these changes mirrorreal world events by Elaine Mao• Plus a reflection on growing up in Hershey’s corporate candy town, a dissection of the contemporary tanghulu trendbeyond TikTok, a brief but insidious history of banana candy, a dumpster diving trip for Theo’s chocolate in the gentrifyingPacific Northwest, an ode to aspartame, and more.
