German chocolate cake and terrapin, with Laurie Morrison (episode 3)
Middle grade writer Laurie Morrison shares some baked goods-related research holes she found in the process of writing her third novel Saint Ivy. Val makes it weird by talking about some random historical Philadelphia dishes, from terrapin to salad customs to scrapple.
German chocolate cake pic from Food & Wine
SHOW NOTES:
Here’s a link to all the places where you can buy Saint Ivy. (I said Bookshop.com in the episode but what I meant was Bookshop.org - it’s a site where a small percentage of your purchase goes to indie bookstores. You can also find your local indie bookstore by looking it up on Indiebound.org.)
Saint Ivy activity guide (with kid-friendly German Chocolate Cake recipe!)
I’m not sure if this is truly the original German chocolate cake recipe, but it’s listed as such on a Baker’s German sweet chocolate bar wrapper, so I’m guessing it’s close.
The Llanfear Pattern by Francis Biddle is hard to find online - the best I have for you is this Worldcat link. But here is a review of the book in the New York Times from 1927! (Long story short - the critic found the story lacking in personality, but thought Biddle was promising as a writer. To each his own!)
Diamondback Terrapin pic that I sent to Laurie
Here is a good explainer of the difference between Philadelphia vs. French style ice cream, with some other types of ice cream thrown in!
The full list and schedule of Jeopardy guest hosts - through August anyway