Cake Fetish – Albuquerque, New Mexico
Americans are absolutely food obsessed! It’s become alarmingly obvious in our culture of caloric overachievers that few of us miss any meals. It’s also telling (yet seemingly innocuous) that many of the terms of endearment we use for one another are related to food. Terms such as honey, sugar, pumpkin and others are regularly used by sweet-talking lotharios of both genders. One term of endearment which has grown out of fashion is “cupcake” which in today’s vernacular refers to a woman whose front and back body fat hangs over the waistline, giving the woman the “top of the cupcake” look. While “cupcake” may have become an intended compliment which will get your face slapped, cupcakes themselves have been reestablished as a cool, viable and in-demand dessert option. It should be pointed out that women aren’t the only gender who can acquire that “cupcake” shape (as I’m reminded when I eat too many cupcakes). The innovative Slate Street Cafe may have reinvigorated the “cupcakes as dessert” trend in Albuquerque, but with the March, 2006 launch of Cake Fetish, Carrie Mettling (formerly an architect later to launch the much missed Rebel Donut) took it to the next step. Her tiny gourmet cupcake…