The Spices in your Welsh Cakes

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.

Good morning, and welcome to Vittles! Today, Yasmin Begum uses the Welsh cake as a lens through which to examine the tangled inter-relations between the culinary history of Wales and colonialism.

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