A couple
weeks ago I picked up a copy of Sitting in Bars with Cake by Audrey Shulman;
which happens to be her first book, and a deliciously entertaining read. Before
I even began to discuss this book there are a few words of advice I must give:
If you plan on reading this book have a piece of cake, cupcake, cookie, just
something sugary close by – the delicious cake recipes throughout the book will
activate your sugar tooth.
It is
probably safe to say that at some point in time we have all concocted a plan to
get a guy to ask us out. I was not as creative as Shulman – back in college my
patience wore thin with one guy I was kind of interested in and he was
obviously interested in my so I ended up asking him out…lesson from that
experience, never go out with someone who does not have the confidence to ask
you out. Audrey Shulman’s strategy is actually quite genius, but you would have
to have just the right personality to pull it off. Over the course of one year
she took 50 cakes to bars {never visiting the same one twice} around LA and
tried to bait a boyfriend with her baking abilities. Which, if you think about
it actually has some logic to it – what kind of guy would turn down homemade
cake and would you really want to date someone who doesn’t like cake?
In case
you are wondering… Yes, Audrey Shulman is a real person and yes, these cake
baking, barhopping adventures she’s written about happened in real life. She is
writing from her own personal experience, which just happens to make for a
really good read.
After
living as a single woman in LA for a few years Audrey was getting tired of
spending her Saturday nights in and decided to take a proactive approach on the
dating front. Audrey turned to her baking, but instead of eating the cake
herself or at a birthday party, she went to different bars around the LA area
bearing a cake in had, which would be her ice breaker when talking to a guy she
might be interested in.
Sittingin Bars with Cake recounts Audrey’s year spent baking her way to a boyfriend,
or at least the hope of finding one. Each story in the book is paired with a
cake recipe fitting to the situation. It’s filled with stories that the reader
can relate to on some level. Plus, I love how she sectioned her book off: sweet,
salty, bitter, fruity, and savory – each one of these sections containing
stories about guys that have one of these 5 traits or the interaction she had
with them fell under one of these 5 categories.
Sittingin Bars with Cake is a book I definitely recommend – it not only has
entertaining stories, but delicious recipes as well. This is not a spoiler to
the book by any means; I had to do a little research to find this information
out…the ending of the book never stated if she did in fact bake her way to a
boyfriend, so… Incase you are wondering what the end results of Shulman’s cake
baking, barhopping experiment was: she grew as a person, meet interesting
people along the way, broke out of her comfort zone, and got a book deal, which
in my opinion is better than a boyfriend. After her cake baking adventures
ended she was set up on a blind date with someone she really hit it off with
and who happens to enjoy cake!
This sounds like such a fun book, now I'm craving cake (and it's only 7:30AM). Can't believe she is a real person who did this.
ReplyDelete-Alex
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I just found out she is really good friends with a girl I went to high school, so I can say without a doubt that she is a very real person! Sitting in Bars with Cake will definitely make you crave cake and the stories are so entertaining!
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DeleteWhat a cool book! I would love to snack while reading it! :D
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It is definitely a book that merits a snack :)
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I love fun reads like Sitting in Bars with Cake! Happy to see you enjoyed this post!
DeleteDefinitely adding this book to my reading list!
ReplyDeleteRachel
The Haute Notes
You will love Sitting in Bars with Cake!
Deletethanks for the recommendation!! I'll check it out this summer when I finish up school :)
ReplyDeleteIt is a great any time read! Hope you enjoy this book!
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