10901 Obsessives: Let’s Get Married, Let’s Have Cake Fri Jan 25 12:09:00 -0800 2008 http://www.chow.com/stories/10901 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:09:00 GMT The heights to which a wedding cake baker will go Shinmin Li's wedding cakes are lovely to look at, lovely to eat. http://www.chow.com Meredith Arthur, Eric Slatkin, and Blake Smith 86 Obsessives 1

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Obsessives: Let’s Get Married, Let’s Have Cake

By Meredith Arthur, Eric Slatkin, and Blake Smith

Wedding cake designer Shinmin Li started baking wedding cakes after training in fine art. It’s not that jarring of a change, if you think about it. Li owns I Dream of Cake in San Francisco, and spends her time obsessing over cake consistency, design details, and whether her clients will eat the finished product.

This is a regular series called Obsessives, in which CHOW explores the worlds of singularly focused food-industry figures. These are the people with the dirty hands, answering detailed questions about the work they do.

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