Cake Zine, Vol.4 – Tough Cookie

Cake Zine is a hedonistic exploration of history, pop culture, literature, and art through sweets.

In this issue:

-A wartime dispatch from the Ukrainian bakery keeping the ovens alight and the frontline fueled by Felicity Spector

-An interview with a Times Square Cookie Monster mascot trading selfies for tips by Katie Way

-Sweet and surreal fiction by Catherine Lacey, Hilary Leichter, and Melissa Lozada-Oliva

-An admiring salute to the cookiecutter shark by Sabrina Imbler

-A feature on the coalition of international workers staffing the Canadian Oreo factory assembly line by Soobin Kim

-Recipes for cookies tough in texture, technique, or tone by Abi Balingit, Briana Holt, Caroline Schiff, Chloe-Rose Crabtree, Paola Velez, and Yesenia Castañon

-An ode to the psychic pleasures of wearing gourmand perfumes by Tracy Wan

-Plus a dishy reflection on being the head chef at a powerful Wall Street bank in the eighties, a eulogy for the end of the browser cookie, using Lorna Doones as currency in the psych ward, and much more.