Episode Details

We’re talking about romance with baking and sweet treats today! This is one of romance’s most common Romance Jobs, and we’re getting to the bottom of the appeal of the bakery in romance. Why do we love it when one character makes masterful desserts? What is so compelling about characters who know their way around the oven? We’ve got historicals, reality tv competitions, magic baking and menage — a little something for everyone this week!

Stay tuned at the end of the episode for a chat with Leah Greenberg, the co-Founder and co-Executive Director of Indivisible, our Fated States phonebanking partner! Fated States, our democratic phonebanking initiative continues this week! We’ll be calling Georgia to get out the vote for Jon Ossoff, Keisha Lance Bottoms, and democrats up and down the ticket! There will be games, prizes and special guests! Learn more and register to phone bank with us at fatedmates.net/fatedstates.

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Books

• Marrying Winterborne by Lisa Kleypas
• How the Dukes Stole Christmas
• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
• The Glass Kitchen by Linda Francis Lee
• Fake It Til You Bake It by Jamie Wesley
• A Legend in the Baking by Jamie Wesley
• Battle Royale by Lucy Parker
• Sweethand by NG Peltier
• Lips Like Sugar by Jess Hardy
• Craving It All by Kati Wilde
• Tart by Lauren Dane
• The Remaking of Corbin Wale by Roan Parrish
• Delectable Desire by Farrah Rochon
• Delicious Destiny by Yarrah St. John

Notes

• We’re discussing slang this week: a hilarious explanation of BDE at wikihow, check out urban dictionary for DTF, a fun new online site I just discovered called GenZ decoded turnt, and although the WNBA’s Washington Mystics Young Heaux nick