Cake Zine Volume 7: Forbidden Fruit

Forbidden Fruit explores how fruit fuels temptation and transgression. It’s one hundred and six pages of essays, recipes, art, and more including: •    Unholy marriages of vice and sweetness, like a scene report on the strawberry “jaba juice” fueling Nairobi nightlife 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 Grayson Samuels •    A profile of Bilal, an ever-optimistic clerk in one of Barcelona’s many fruterias powered by illicit labor, by Sithara Ranasinghe•    A reckoning with orange soda by New York Magazine's Chris Crowley•    A deconstruction of the immigrant fruit-p