Bumper to Bumper Inspection

The above photo is from the <a href="https://www.tibs.org.tw/en/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Taipei International Baking Show</a>, which Carolina and I attended last month. Carolina is an award-winning baker and volunteered annually at a big cake event in Austin, but since moving to Taiwan, home-baking is less common and more inconvenient. We’re limited to a countertop oven, often unfamiliar ingredients, fewer occasions that call for sweet treats, and less motivation to cook at home. But we’re still interested, so we jumped at the opportunity to go to this event, but it was quite different than the Austin-equivalent. First of all, it was gigantic! Of course the name says “international,” but that can mean very little. In this case, there were many vendors and competitors from other countries, taking up multiple halls in an exhibition center. The place was packed, and even included field trip groups from high schools (and a youth baking competition). However, we were surprised to find vendors to be the star of the show. At most baking-related events in the US, the main attraction are the cakes, but here the artistic baking goods were sparse, with equipment manufacturers and food importers taking up the best-placed stands.   <a href="https://medium.com/@GrahamMOliver/bumper-to-bumper-inspection-3fd7e988aa81">Read More</a>