80 – Helen Oyeyemi's Delightfully Sinister Gingerbread

05/04/2019 19 min Episodio 80
80 – Helen Oyeyemi's Delightfully Sinister Gingerbread

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Episode Synopsis


Helen Oyeyemi's novel “Gingerbread” is a smart, fantastical story about three generations of women who share a recipe. The tea cake is at times delicious—and at times sinister. Oyeyemi tells us that she was drawn to "the mix of safety and danger all combined in one seemingly innocuous foodstuff." Later in the show, the Bite hosts get baking tips from an in-house expert.

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