THE LIFE OF SLICE

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What happens when a pastry chef meets a magazine editor in Brooklyn? No this isn’t the set up for a joke that perhaps three people might ever find funny. But…what do you get when a pastry chef meets a magazine editor in Brooklyn? 

You get the start of a media brand and a movement and a community. In other words, you get Cake Zine.

Started as a post-pandemic stab at reconnecting with the world, Cake Zine is the result of that meet cute. Tanya Bush, the pastry chef, and Aliza Abarbanel, a magazine editor, took their love of sweets and have created a magazine that is kind of like what you might get if a literary magazine developed a sweet tooth.

And threw great parties.

Not just in Brooklyn but in LA and London and Paris. And that might become, who knows, not just a new sort of literary salon but an actual salon, or cake shop-wine bar, or publisher. 

Tanya and Aliza have plans, perhaps too many, but for now, they are content with creating a smart and tasty magazine that blends fiction, essays and recipes in a lovingly blended skillfully layered cake. 

And. They. Have. Plans. 

But they are also realists and wise enough to know that you can’t rush a soufflé. Lest it collapse. Much like these tortured yeasty metaphors.

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