Books I'm Reading That Would Be Excellent Wedding Cake Designs

-Alice Hoffman's "Blackbird House"
I hope there'll be a cookbook for each of her books soon. Baby blackbirds can be released from a huge red velvet cake, designed by "Cake Boss," which features my favorite chef. I wish they could be invited and paid to create giant wedding cakes, as huge as Michelangelo's statue of David, inspired by all of Hoffman's books.

-The "Dove Keeper" by Alice Hoffman is a wonderful companion to any feminist books, with Jewish mythology about Miriam, and her wishing well miracles.

-Philippa Gregory's "Meridon" and "The Queen's Fool"

Some people have a reading log, but I love to jot down a wedding cake design for each book that I read. I grew up with real buttercream-iced, noel log cakes for Christmas from a South Vietnamese-American bakery. Sometimes, I long to see little fondant cake pops in the shape of those noel logs. And Mexican, spicy pain au chocolat, shaped like a giant wedding cake.

And here, with so much of this beer culture, there's no Tatin breads, or the little French bakery in downtown Melbourne. And there's no place here that serves Balinese sambal, or has Balinese "lechona" or roasted, suckling pig feasts to celebrate the holiday seasons with Balinese dancers. Here is a state that freely celebrates UFC, then would denigrate and shame the Balinese dancers. Every GLBT, Dominican Republican-American, civil rights attorney knows about these violent hate criminals, I hope.