Cake! Baking it, designing it, eating it. Good for the soul. Good for creating time to contemplate life, love, the universe etc. Cake makes time out with a friend in a snug coffee shop a great indulgence. Cake celebrates every occasion, is a useful tool to demonstrate both thanks and repentance. Gaile Parkin brings the Rwandan capital to life through the medium of cakes. Baking cakes in Kigali is a gentle but terrifying rebuke to the western reader, a moving insight into the aftermath of empire, racial tension, war, and the simple but profound efforts taken by one solatary, hurting figure, to reach out to the community. Angel's unique cakes uncover the daily horror of survival but begin to offer quiet comfort and hope, bringing in return a slow but certain measure of healing for the deeply-proactive and extremely human baker.
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