Cake Zine #5: CANDY LAND

Cake Zine’s fifth issue, Candy Land, unwraps candy’s connections to the literal and metaphorical land. It’s ninety-six pages of essays, recipes, fiction, and art, including: conversations with the doomsday preppers prioritizing pleasure at the end of the world by Amy Rose Spiegel, an exploration of raver kandi culture in late stage EDM by Simon Wu, an essay by Leslie Jamison on building candy houses to steer her daughter away from the wild woods of restriction, a reflection on how climate change is impacting farming for cacao, grapes, and other fruits by eco futurist Lily Consuelo Saporta Tagiuri, an interview with flavor scientist Dr. Arielle Johnson on the scientific reasons behind our blue raspberry cravings by Dominique Evans, and more.