Started from the Top with Vallery Lomas

For Colored Nerds

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Former lawyer Vallery Lomas turned to baking on a whim, but quickly shot to the top when she became the first Black winner of The Great American Baking Show. But in a strange twist of fate, her season never aired on TV. Vallery chats with Brittany and Eric about her subsequent bounce back and resulting cookbook -- Life Is What You Bake It.

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0:00.0	there are definitely some people in the community who are absolutely doing things,
0:07.0	you know, and we understand the assignment, which is open doors for others because we have to
0:15.7	combat this tokenization that is running rampant. I'm sorry.
0:21.1	Let me get that.
0:22.4	Was that the oven?
0:23.2	Yeah.
0:23.9	That's amazing.
0:24.6	That's great.
0:25.3	Oh, yeah.
0:25.7	Are you baking something right now?
0:28.0	That is the dough for my bignets that I will be frying when we finish.
0:40.0	Hi, I'm Eric.
0:40.9	And I'm Brittany.
0:43.6	And this is for colored nerds.
0:49.0	The weekly show where we peel back the layers of black culture that we rarely discuss in mixed company.
0:54.7	So this week, y'all, we're in the company of the woman you just heard making bignets,
0:56.9	baker and author Valerie Lomas.
0:58.7	If you don't know Valerie, you should.
1:00.1	She's a literal champion.
1:03.1	Valerie won the Great American Baking Show.
1:06.6	She was the first black person to win the franchise. But in a very strange twist of fate, also the first winner whose show never aired on TV.
1:12.9	Sounds wild. We know we'll get much for coming on to the show. Welcome.
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