Levine started baking on her own at the young age of nine. “My favorite books back then were cookbooks. I was fascinated with Australian Women’s Weekly Birthday Cake Book and Margaret Fulton’s Encyclopedia of Food & Cookery. It’s a dream come true to have my own successful bakery. There is nothing better than to make a living at what you love to do,” Levine says.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
“The Cake Aussie” Naomi Levine brings a new accent to Chicago Custom Cake Designing
There is an art form to custom cake designing and Naomi Levine, owner and operator of TipsyCake in Chicago proves to be an expert in the field. The Australian-born baker moved to Chicago in 1999, aspired to own her own business, loved dealing with customers and had a passion for baking. Thus, began Levine’s adventure. She began studying baking and pastry at the Illinois Institute for the Arts in 2004 and launched TipsyCake as a web-based business selling baked goods to local restaurants and hotels. As her popularity grew she knew she had to find a place of her own to bake her creations and since 2006 TipsyCake calls 1043 N. California in the diverse Humboldt Park neighborhood, home.
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“ If you're looking for a cake that not only looks great, but tastes great as well, totally call Naomi. All three of my cakes from her have left people talking about them for days. Next on my list? I need to order some cupcakes done up Naomi style. ”
ReplyDeleteTipsy Cake must be boycotted for the blatant ignorance and stupidity they showed in this interview with city soles. they bash the Humboldt Park community (the community they began their business in and currently serve) and enodrse crack in a neighborhood that struggles with drug addiction. I would never eat here and suggest you dont either. we need businesses in our community that will uplift us not exploit and bash the people they serve. Tipsy cake doesnt realize that they have offended many Humboldt Park residents and we deserve an apology. check out the awful interview here--- http://bit.ly/xWLcP1
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ReplyDeleteI live in Bucktown. This business owner should know: racist attitudes and ignorance are not welcome here either. If you really feel so strongly about crime in minority neighborhoods, try showing some compassion for the people who live and raise their families there, who can’t simply pick up and leave. This ignominy is well-deserved, and I won’t be buying cakes there. I hope she learns a valuable lesson about doing business in America. If she doesn’t, her arrogance and lack of tact will cost her more business here than crime in Humboldt ever did.
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http://gozamos.com/2012/02/unpacking-the-tipsy-cake-crack-house-the-misrepresentation-of-humboldt-park/
"Her statement of “gunshots in the cake” and her showcasing of her crudely named “crack cakes” serves as coded language for Puerto Ricans and other people of color and makes reference to the violent crime, vice, and social pathology that is allegedly inherent in such people. In essence, she perpetuated the very stigmas that saturate the print and visual media, reproducing racist notions. In other words, she paints Humboldt Park as a savage no-man’s land, following in a long tradition of “urban pioneers” who bravely seek to tame the indomitable through imperial mechanisms of power and privilege." -X. L. Burgos, gozamos.com