Episode 4: The Exactly Right Cake

Being part of a Southern community means baking the Exactly Right Cake when we gather. Here's why.

This Episode Features:

  • New York Times best-selling food writer Anne Byrn (Nashville)

  • Kelli and Tracey Wright, bakers and co-founders, Two Dough Girls (Atlanta)

  • Bitter Southerner Family Member Tori Hook (Kansas City | born and raised Franklin, Tennessee)

  • White Trash Cooking author the late Ernest Matthew Mickler (archival)

  • BS contributor Michael Adno

  • Helen "Petie" Pickett, Ernie Mickler's childhood friend (Jacksonville, Florida)

  • Bill Fagaly, curator of African art at the New Orleans Museum of Art (former boyfriend of Mickler's, with him during writing of WTC)

  • Cruise-ship chef Cassandra Loftlin ( Atlanta | making Reba’s Rainbow Icebox Cake from WTC)

Atlanta-based chef Cassandra Loftlin whips up Reba’s Rainbow Icebox Cake, which is found in the White Trash Cooking cookbook. The recipe includes a cup of confectioner's sugar, two egg yolks, one cup pecans, half a cup of oleo margarine, one number two can of Dole crushed pineapple, two boxes of lime jello, two boxes of cherry jello, and one box of Graham crackers.

Credits for This Episode

Host: Chuck Reece
Producer: Sean Powers
Editor: Josephine Bennett
Theme music: Patterson Hood
Additional music in this episode came from De Wolfe Music.

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