Sweet Paris: A life of cakes and pastries
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Meet Frank Adrian Barron, an American baker in Paris (better know as Cake Boy Paris).
He talks of how he made it as a baker in the city, sharing his sweet treats on social media, and his book Sweet Paris.
Find out more about Frank and his work via his Instagram page here, his website here, and his book here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. My name is Oliver G. This is the Earful Tower podcast where I talk to the people |
| 0:07.5 | who make the city of light shine. And one such person who's in the studio today, Frank |
| 0:13.9 | Adrian Barron, who runs the wildly popular social media account Cake Boy Paris. Also has a book that came out fairly recently called Sweet Paris Seasonal Recipes from an American |
| 0:25.5 | Baker in Paris. |
| 0:26.8 | Just from that introduction, I think you know what you're in for. |
| 0:31.1 | Let's introduce him to the studio. |
| 0:33.4 | Frank, welcome to the studio. |
| 0:35.1 | A pleasure to be here. |
| 0:36.4 | Hi, guys. |
| 0:37.0 | It is a pleasure to have you in the studio because it's been, how, let's see, how far do we go back? |
| 0:42.3 | And why have you not been in the studio before? |
| 0:43.3 | You know, I was just on my way to the studio. I was thinking about that. |
| 0:47.3 | When was the first time we had a run in? It had to have been around coffee. |
| 0:50.3 | I think so. Most likely, that's usually where we bump into each other, bakeries and coffee shops. |
| 0:55.9 | I don't think there's another person in Paris I bump into as much as you. |
| 0:59.0 | You and I and your husband and my wife, not so much lately, but we have the same walking tour, casual for pleasure walking tour of the Marais schedule. |
| 1:10.0 | Same streets. I imagine they're totally |
| 1:12.7 | different, but they cross at certain places. Il-San-Louis, near the Peloton. Yeah, I think it's like |
| 1:18.6 | two triangles that are overlapping somehow. And those are those triangles that we're always |
| 1:23.2 | bumping into each other. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you've got your lovely little dog, what's the dog saying? A Fitsy. |
| 1:27.8 | Funny Fitsy. |
| 1:28.8 | Yeah, funny Fitsy. |
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