How the cultural history of the Welsh cake complicates conventional understandings of the role of Wales in the British Empire. Words by Yasmin Begum. Illustration by Keira Evans.
As a brown person who’s recently moved to rural mid-Wales, this piece has provided lots of answers to some of the questions that have been tinkering at the back of my head - I actually only recently ate a Welsh cake (it’s hard to find proper ones without a crazy amount of ultra processed ingredients) and they funnily enough really reminded me of a griddle cake (gorditas de azucar) I grew up eating in Mexico! Thank you, for so pulling so much out of the humble Welsh cake.
Curious to know why the term non-white has been used a couple of times - perhaps intentional? I find it turns whiteness into the norm, and everyone else becomes a deviation.
This is an incredible piece of writing. Thank you very much. Deserving of a very wide audience.
Beyond beautiful, high impact writing
Excellent writing, and so many intriguing possible sidebars worth exploring. Thank you.
loved this!
Great writing and very stimulating, Yasmin - thank you
As a brown person who’s recently moved to rural mid-Wales, this piece has provided lots of answers to some of the questions that have been tinkering at the back of my head - I actually only recently ate a Welsh cake (it’s hard to find proper ones without a crazy amount of ultra processed ingredients) and they funnily enough really reminded me of a griddle cake (gorditas de azucar) I grew up eating in Mexico! Thank you, for so pulling so much out of the humble Welsh cake.
Curious to know why the term non-white has been used a couple of times - perhaps intentional? I find it turns whiteness into the norm, and everyone else becomes a deviation.