Culture Re-baked

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Cake is culture, culture is cake. Anyway you bake it, anywhere you eat it.

Did you realize, that every time there is some kind of cultural event, there is always cake around (sometimes packaged and sold as candy bars)? If someones plans a street party or a community festival of some kind, there are always legions of people baking trays of various sweet temptations based on flour, fruit and chocolate (to some degree). Or you go to that nice swap meet and after some time the smell of cakes or pancakes pull you in. And the place where the people are the most at peace – big and small – is at the baking places. No cultural event works without cake. Why?

I think it is because for one baking a cake is a common piece of art. So that is very gratifying for the bakers. Then everyone remembers cakes from family events or birthdays. Cake brings people together. Cake is something that everybody agrees on all over the globe. It might have different names, slightly different ingredients and take different forms, but it is something that everyone understands even without the proper language to pronounce its title.

So cake is the iconic dish of the culture of shared food. Cake is culture.

Maybe we should get a lot of people together from all places and have them bake a cake. Remind them, of what they have in common. How much they all love that one thing, that links them all.

World Cake Association. I would love that.

Baking a cake is a common piece of art.

Side Notes:

  • I am really looking forward to this summer’s cultural events in the city. And I will be collecting inspirations to share with you.