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80 – Helen Oyeyemi's Delightfully Sinister Gingerbread
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Length:
19 minutes
Released:
Apr 5, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Helen Oyeyemi's novel “Gingerbread” is a smart, fantastical story about three generations of women who share a recipe. The tea cake is at times delicious—and at times sinister. Oyeyemi tells us that she was drawn to "the mix of safety and danger all combined in one seemingly innocuous foodstuff." Later in the show, the Bite hosts get baking tips from an in-house expert.
Released:
Apr 5, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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