Forbidden Fruit

Cake Zine’s seventh issue, Forbidden Fruit, explores how fruit fuels temptation and transgression. It’s one hundred andsix pages of essays, recipes, art, and more including:• Unholy marriages of vice and sweetness, like a scene report on the strawberry “jaba juice” fueling Nairobinightlife by Awuor Onguru and Ankit Sethi’s frantic search for blackmarket mango-flavored Juul pods.• An exploration of Corsican strawberries, class, and the fruits of labor by K Chiucarello• A surreal short story on pomegranates by Xita Rubert winner of the 2024 Premio Herralde de Novela• An oral history of Fire Island’s queer Eden, Cherry Grove, by Emma Banks• Questioning the all-American status of apple pie and Florida fruit juice, by Rafaella Basseli and Grayston Samuels• A profile of Bilal, an ever-optimistic clerk in one of Barcelona’s many fruterias powered by illicit labor, by SitharaRanasinghe• A reckoning with orange soda by New York Magazine's Chris Crowley• Giri Nathan unpacking the immigrant fruit-plate-as-love-language trope• Recipes to fuel our deepest produce cravings: durian snow skin mooncakes by Mei Liao, pomegranate iceboxcake by Mina Stone, gooey tonka bean butter cakes by Rose Wilde, guava nicuatole by Yara Herrera, andstrawberry atole cake by Teresa Finney.• Plus: The confessions of a child mango thief, a cannabis baker’s struggle to beat her fruit allergies in pursuit ofculinary greatness, fruitarianism, and more

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