A woman who continues to reproduce the cake shop's closed cake as a 'desert anthropologist'

There are many people who have "shops that I want to eat again," such as shops that passed when I was a child, but there are also cases where the maker has died or the shop is closed and it will not come true . People who name the "desert anthropologist" to reproduce such a "past taste" in the present age are active.

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"What I am doing is bringing out the wonderful desserts and experiences that have already been lost from the past," said Valery Gordon.

Mr. Gordon who warms the cream in the cake.

Cutting something like a meringue confection ... and ...

I will coat the cream.

"A wonderful dessert has the ability to change one person's day," Gordon is managing a shop dealing in "dessert that was restored from the past" in Los Angeles.

The name of the shop is " Valerie Confections "

Besides the cake, items like sweet bread were also displayed.

Mr. Gordon calls himself a "desert anthropologist".

It was 2009 that Gordon began an attempt to "revive the past dessert." Can the Los Angeles magazine's food editor make a bakery cake called "Blum's Bakery" which was once in San Francisco, " Koffee Krunch Cake "? It was the opportunity that I visited.

In the following image Gordon is making "Blum's Koffee Krunch Cake"

It is a type of cake that I wear the meringue confectioner that appeared earlier. Mr. Gordon who was familiar with Koffee Krunch Cake since childhood and missed the existence of cake after the store has gone down seems to respond to the story given from the editor.

Blum's seems to have been "a wonderful bakery" which had been deployed in California for 8 stores, but in the 1980s all the stores closed.

The menu actually used was like this.

When reproducing Koffee Krunch Cake and posting it in a magazine, it seems that there were as many as 125 calls "I want this cake."

Besides Koffee Krunch Cake ......

Chasen's banana short cake that was closed in 1995 ... ...

Brown Derby 's grapefruit cake which was closed in 1989 and so on are reproduced.

And then Gordon is working on Sunday at Cof - fiesta.

The attempt to revive the former dessert starts with searching for materials at the Central Library.

The central library has a room called "Menu Vault", which stores the menu of stores for the past 150 years.

Both menus are quite age.

Mr. Gordon who arranges menus lazily.

Of course, if you search the internet, you can find the recipe of the former dessert, but by seeing the actual menu, "I know the existence of the soul and heart". It seems that you can time slip back then at the menu's real thing.

Next, I will send e-mails and calls to people like mountains and listen to those who know the cake at the time.

"Since mother was the only Sunday to eat, we were always calling that Sunday as" adult Sunday ".

And I will eat Sunday actually reproduced, I will dig through the softness of the whipped cream and where the vanilla was used.

Mr. Gordon originally said that it was not particularly attached to retro things.

Gordon says that restoration of dessert is "a memory experience at that time". When you are young, when you listen to songs that were prevalent when you were young, there should be some people feeling to roll back in that moment.

"It is the emotional and fulfilling aspect of my work" to reproduce the cake, "Gordon said.