[ SECRET POST #3238 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3238 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. I have a feeling that comes about because people write bakery AU without actually knowing much about baking (much like coffeeshop AU) so cutesy cupcakes is about the extent of their knowledge. I mean a proper bakery... cakes, cookies, pastries, bread, the works!

[tabaqui]

Yes! And being up at gods-awful hour a.m. to make dough and set it to rise and humping huge bags of flour up and down narrow stairs (I love the set up in 'Moonstruck', where the ovens are wood-fired, down around the back of the bakery, in the *basement*, practically medieval. You *know* its a bitch to get all the supplies they need down there.....)

[(Anonymous)]

have you tried any bakery themed mystery novels?

I was trying to find one that I read to recommend "Brownies & Broomsticks" and ended up with an entire list...

http://cozy-mysteries-unlimited.com/bakery-dessert-list

This I guess is a huge thing. I didn't know that... wow.

[tabaqui]

Heeeeee! I had no clue things like that existed. I read Dick Francis mysteries and haven't really ever tried anything else.

Interesting! Thanks for the link. :)

[(Anonymous)]

This is actually something I loved about Robin McKinley's vampire novel 'Sunshine'...the FMC is a baker and there's a lot of talk about it. Some readers complained ("So boring! I don't need all this detail about your muffins!") but I loved the shit out of it.

And it was character topical, too...like, she's a baker, she has the feed-people gene, so there's an element of "...vampire friend doesn't eat??? but must provide baked goods for friends?? what do??"

[(Anonymous)]

I love baking but to be perfectly honest, that book contained too much of it. It wouldn't have been so bad if the character was at least talking about a variety of baked goods but no, it was always cinnamon rolls. Cinnamon roll this, cinnamon roll that... it got in the way of the story and it was glaringly obvious that this was the author's personal obsession. McKinley has a thing about this, her book reflects her latest interests and she goes overboard with it.