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Home » Podcast Episodes » Central/South American Heritage

157 Brazilian Carrot Cake, German Chocolate, and Italian Art with B Santos

Last Modified: Oct 31, 2023 · This post may contain affiliate links

The very best way I can introduce B to you is by sharing what she wrote about her own Storied Recipe, a marbled Brazilian Carrot and Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Glaze:

It was hard for me to pick a recipe, to be honest, because I feel like my baking has grew to be a colorful mix of the places I've lived in - Brazil, the US, and Germany. So I felt like the right thing for me to do was to suggest a recipe that is rooted in my childhood memories, my mom's Brazilian carrot cake with chocolate glaze, but that I made my own through the experiences I've had learning how to bake on my own. The marbling is a really good metaphor to represent the person you become when you live abroad, I find. The flavours work together to form a whole, but are distinct enough to never fully disappear within each other. This is how I see myself at the moment too. Made up of different cultural streams that flow together, for the most part, very harmoniously.  

B recently defended her Master’s dissertation (in Germany) about an Italian painter who was instrumental in changing the ways food was depicted in Renaissance artwork. I was lucky enough to get a copy of her dissertation (translated, of course) which was fascinating and made me think about food in ways we’ve never even discussed in over 150 episodes of this podcast!

I enjoyed every moment I spent chatting with B and am so excited to share our conversation with you now - and so thankful that you have joined us today!!!!

Time Divisions

First 20 minutes: Conversation about B and my son's common experiences in Germany, the massive shift her life took during Covid, and what to gain from living abroad

20:00 - 1:07:10 Conversation about B's Master's Thesis on shifts in food in art during the Rennaisance, specifically in the Brera cycle of Vincenzo Campi

1:07:10 - end B's life and memories in the amazing city of Florianópolis on a Brazilian island

Highlights

  • Chatting about my son’s first few weeks in Germany and B’s advice for him
  • The challenges, difficulties, and benefits of living abroad
  • Moving from Brazil -> Germany without knowing a word of German
  • The massive shift that took place in B’s life and work during the pandemic and as a result of her mother’s death from Covid
  • Comfort baking turned into an entire master’s thesis!
  • The shift of food in art to tell a religious story to art with food AS the story
  • Why Campi’s paintings of the marketplace hung in the legislatures and what they served to remind public servants
  • B’s early and enduring love of art
  • B’s mother: physicist-lawner-french literature expert
  • Opening her eyes as a child to the sand, sun, and sea
  • Lively family dinners where they discussed every topic "warmly"
  • How B's caretaker, her aunt, made cakes with her
  • About B's Brazilion Carrot and Chocolate Swirl Cake
  • Losing her mom so young, going through the process of mourning, finding her mother in herself
  • All about Brazilian Carrot Cake and how B adjusted it to her own tastes and life
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