Cake, Intimacy, and an Asian-American Experience

<p>This episode features Coral Lee, Food52 Podcast Network’s Producer. For this conversation, she is on the other side of the mic sharing a deeply personal story of the cake that encapsulates her grandmother’s communal table. Coral explores the nature of intimacy, her hyphenated identity as an Asian-American, as well as the complicated relationship that she has with her parents. </p><p>If you’re hungry for more of this story, you can read the original essay, “<a href="https://food52.com/blog/25179-my-family-recipe-grandmas-cake">What Grandma's Sponge Cake Taught Me About Being Asian in America</a>” published by Food52. </p><p><i>My Family Recipe</i> is created by the <a href="https://food52.pod.link/">Food52 Podcast Network</a> and <a href="https://heritageradionetwork.org/">Heritage Radio Network</a>, inspired by the eponymous Food52 column.</p>