Sara in Madison, Wisconsin, was reading an old edition of The Joy of Cooking and came across a recipe that described a cake’s ingredients as earrings for an elephant. She couldn’t discern whether the authors meant that was a good thing...
While in a cooking class in Mexico, Travis from Orlando, Florida, was told by the instructor that the word quesadilla comes a supposed Nahuatl word, quesaditzen. That’s not the case, although many other food words derive from that indigenous...
In English, you might describe something easy to do as a cinch or a piece of cake. Several other languages employ tasty metaphors to convey a similar idea. In Brazilian Portuguese, you something easy can be described with an idiom that translates as...
Restekuchen, or baked goods made with leftover ingredients, are popular in Germany, where their name translates as “scrap cake.” This is part of a complete episode.
What dessert would you serve a baseball player? Why, a bundt cake, of course! This is part of a complete episode.
smash cake n.— «What idiot ever came up with the idea of a “smash cake”?! Why buy an entire small cake for your baby to destroy?» —“NON day” by parkingmaid Stub (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Feb...