Baking
Baking a cake
Baking a vegan cake
Searching a recipe on Google
Searching a recipe on YouTube
To manipulate – a recipe to manipulate ‘‘best vegan egg substitutes for baking’’

Vinegar to curdle the soy milk

‘‘Baking Through History: 400 years in 4 minutes’’ is a 22 minutes video from 1945

Grasping - all-purpose flour, cacao, vanilla, sugar, a slice of agriculture

Grinding

Europeans were used to growing crops such as wheat, which they then harvested and sent to other people who would turn the crop into flour.

the food nobody needs, but everyone craves

Bone char—often referred to as natural carbon—is widely used by the sugar industry as a decolorizing filter, which allows the sugar cane to achieve its desirable white color.

Decolorizing - colonizing - sugar plantation

the rise of sugar has been key to global trade and socioeconomic development, slavery and the African Diaspora and modern cultural norms

Portuguese realized the conditions for sugar plantations existed in Brazil, where a slave-based plantation economy was established. When Brazilian sugarcane was introduced in the Caribbean, it led to the growth of the industry which came to feed the sugar craze of Western Europe.


Hundreds of thousands of enslaved people were brought from Africa to the Caribbean and America so that Europeans could have sugar and rum, the main products of sugarcane.

The Spanish conquest of the Aztecs in 1519 brought the fragrant flower—and its companion, cacao to Europe. Vanilla was cultivated in botanical gardens in France and England, but never offered up its glorious seeds. Growers couldn’t understand why until centuries later when, in 1836, Belgian horticulturist Charles Morren reported that vanilla’s natural pollinator was the Melipona bee, an insect that didn’t live in Europe.

Unlike the process of flour on Caribbean and American sugar plantations enslaved laborers had to do everything. They sowed, tended and harvested the crop, and then worked to extract the juice from the sugarcane and boil and process the juice in order to turn it into sugar and molasses, and later they might work to distill some of the waste products into rum.

When they were finally emancipated in 1834 in the British Empire, it was the slave owners who were fully compensated – not the slaves. Much of this money was used to build Victorian infrastructure, such as railways and factories.

Long before Europeans took to vanilla's taste, the creeping vine grew wild in tropical forests throughout Mesoamerica. While the Totonac people of modern-day Veracruz, Mexico, are credited as the earliest growers of vanilla, the oldest reports of vanilla usage come from the pre-Columbian Maya. The Maya used vanilla in a beverage made with cacao and other spices.


Bi-state of the flowers


In 1841, an enslaved boy on the island named Edmond Albius developed the painstaking yet effective hand-pollination method for vanilla that is still in use today, which involves exposing and mating the flower’s male and female parts. A way to augment the vanilla harvest pollinated by bees.

A cake is a wonderful thing: the care and patience required; the sweet indulgence; the ceremony; the extravagant simplicity. It is a metaphor for love.


Baking a cake: a metaphor for research.


Cake theory is a metaphor about economic development and the redistribution of wealth in the political discourse.

Emerged in 2010 as problems with an increased wealth gap became gradually more apparent. If economic development is seen as analogous to baking a cake, one side of the debate suggests that development should focus on 'dividing the cake more fairly,' while the other says development should be focused on 'baking a bigger cake.’

Pasta means cake with frosting in Turkish, kek is cake without frosting, cake itself is of Viking origin, from the Old Norse word “kaka". Kaka means poop in Arabic, in Swedish it means cookie.

The four dimensions of racism

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First layer of cake - Internalized

The subtle and over messages that reinforce negative beliefs and self-hatred in individuals.

First layer of frosting - Interpersonal
Racist acts and micro-aggressions carried out from one person to another

Second layer of cake - Structural

Multiple institutions collectively upholding racist policies and practices

Top frosting - Institutional

Policies and practices that reinforce racist standards within a workspace or organization.

Fair cake-cutting is a kind of fair division problem.


The problem involves a heterogeneous resource, such as a cake with different toppings, that is assumed to be divisible – a cut arbitrarily small pieces of it without destroying their value.


A subjectively fair-cutting, in that each person receives a piece that they believe to be a fair share.