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 Post subject: This woman is Fuzzy's soul mate
PostPosted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 1:20 pm 
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Fuzzy, I know you're taken, but I couldn't help think of you when I read this - this has to be a woman you could easily relate to (as, I think we all could). Over at EYB we're giving away a couple of copies of Robicelli's, a Love Story, with Cupcakes (the Robicelli's own a famous cupcake bakery in Brooklyn if you haven't heard of them). So we asked Allison Robicelli to write us an essay about cupcakes - why she likes them, etc. The below is what we received - uncensored, though I did censor it a bit for the EYB site:

"We get why you hate cupcakes. We get how your toes curl at the "tweeness" of them, how you have a biological impulse to reject any edible that comes in colors not found in nature, how you have a natural suspicion of food that can be customized to feature a cutout of Justin Bieber's head on top of it.

We accept this. We understand. We agree.

Do you know what's not okay? Generalizing and dismissing the entire genre. Just because there are plenty of mindless, gimmicky, cutesy-wootsy bakeries out there whose saccharine sweetness is only outdone by the glitter-enhanced pure-sugar bombs they create does not mean that there are not literally thousands of excellent bakeries all across the world that are making something exceptional.

Please tell me of one child you know who has anxiously looked forward to blowing out the candles on his hunk of small-batch farmstead birthday cheese. A happy couple who eschewed a delicious tiered wedding cake for a celebratory artisan pickle bar. An adorable grandma who has invited her loved ones over to catch up over some locally sourced spelt crackers and kombucha.

Everyone likes cake! Any time something really awesome is going down, cake gets involved: birthdays, bar mitzvahs, going-away parties, good-intentioned kinky sex that doesn't work out as well as Cosmo implied that it would, weddings - the list is endless.

Problem is, you normally have to to buy a whole cake to get in on the action. But now, by the grace of God, we no longer need to wait for a special occasion, nor do we have to shamefully eat an entire cake by ourselves while watching TV movies and crying. We can buy a piece of cake meant to serve only one person! When you're having a bad day, you can buy a cupcake to turn the day around and make yourself feel special. You can call an old friend, ask him or her to meet you over a cupcake and a few cups of coffee, and just talk. You can buy several for the office to win the love of your coworkers.

Yet despite this love, the media have been wondering what brand-new sweet is going to knock the glorious, beloved cupcake off its proverbial perch, when universally it will be rejected by every red-blooded American and reporters can finally leave cupcakes in the past! "Surely it's only a trend," they say. I mean it's a trend that's been going on for close to twenty years now, but that just means it's all about to go south soon. Unlike fucking normal foods, desserts secretly hate one another and are incessantly plotting how to destroy all their competitors! Especially the Napoleans!

You don't see people getting this pissed off about sandwiches, do you? What do you think sandwiches are? They're just an entire meal made portable and personal size. Or buying a slice of pizza instead of getting an entire pie? All the same logic. Yet I've never once seen a food writer say that burgers as we know them are over because he stopped at McDonald's for lunch or wondering what the "next" sandwich would be. Cupcakes are not supposed to be stupid! They should be so much more than just aesthetics, so much more than a cutesy, polka-dot novelty.

They should be a small piece of the greatest cake you have ever had in your entire fucking life. That's all."

I'm so tempted to buy the book - although I never bake cupcakes or cakes now that it's just Joe and me - but just because I so want to support her.

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 Post subject: Re: This woman is Fuzzy's soul mate
PostPosted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 1:27 pm 
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Lindsay,

This is priceless! I'm not even sure what to say, other than...

your connection back to Fuzzy is DEAD ON!

You made my day,

Amy

Edited to add: I am SO buying this book. With her sense of humor, how could I not?


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 Post subject: Re: This woman is Fuzzy's soul mate
PostPosted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 1:42 pm 
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Agree about Josh and loved the piece. Thanks.

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 Post subject: Re: This woman is Fuzzy's soul mate
PostPosted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 2:45 pm 
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Guilty as charged. :oops:
Can I make amends :?:
MY PLEDGE: I will eat a cupcake, at the best bakery in town, this weekend! :D

P.S. Many Thanks, Lindsay :!:


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PostPosted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 5:39 pm 
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LOVE!

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 5:59 pm 
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Include me in on the love of that piece. Maybe she is a long lost relative of Fuzzy?


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PostPosted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 8:13 pm 
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Hah! My kinda gal, indeed.

So, introduce us? :twisted:

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 1:35 pm 
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I love it!


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PostPosted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 4:30 pm 
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That is so funny!!!

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Loving it! :mrgreen:


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