Last week at bookclub, talk turned to cakes, and in particular, those from the New Albany, Mississippi, bakery Sugaree’s.
The cake-purchaser to-be was put off by the $40 price tag for a whole cake. We agreed that seemed like a lot. Then someone said, “But that caramel cake …” and gestured her hand in such a way to fill in all the adjectives too inadequate to describe this cake.