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Day 21. Piece of Cake
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Day 21. Piece of Cake
#PieceOfCake
Playing catch up a lot this month 😅🥲
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The idiom #PieceOfCake describes something easily accomplished. It‘s presumed to be derived from the cakewalk, a competitive dance performed by black slaves which mocked the over-refined manners that plantation owners employed at their formal balls & where the winner received a cake.
The tagged book is the 1st in a fave bakery cozy mystery series. The MC bakes cakes & solves mysteries easily. Here are some of the “cakiest” covers.
#IdiomInsight Day 21: There is literally a #PieceOfCake alongside this novel I started reading four months ago and just finished reading early this week. I feel a sense of accomplishment! Review is forthcoming this Saturday. 💕Part of my #DecolonizeReading2023 list. 📚📚📚
I had no idea this idiom has such racist origins. Learn something new everyday.
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#PieceOfCake was apparently the prize in a Cakewalk which according to the Oxford Dictionary of African American English (currently being written) was a contest in which Black people would perform a stylized walk in pairs whose movements mimicked formal dances of white society, typically judged by a plantation owner. The winner would receive some type of cake. There's a debate about whether the enslavers knew they were being mocked. #IdiomInsight
so-soNot exactly what I expected - I thought that this story would incorporate the Disney princesses into one big baking frenzy together. Instead, it‘s kind of short stories of each princess or heroine randomly deciding to bake. For most, it‘s a #PieceOfCake . Disney fans will recognize the princesses and their supporting characters. Simple words and sentence structure, so a good #EasyReader . #BBRC
