Cake Zine Volume 5: Candy Land

Cake Zine is a hedonistic exploration of history, pop culture, literature, and art through sweets. The 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 essay by Leslie Jamison on building candy houses to steer her daughter away from the wild woods of restriction • An exploration of raver kandi culture in late stage EDM by Simon Wu  • 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   • Recipes for dirt ‘n’ worms tiramisu, crunchy alegría, and crystalline kohakutou by Zoe Denenberg, Fabián von Hauske Valtierra, and Rie McClenny • Sweet and sur