‘Great British Bake Off’ Is a Strange Vehicle for Change
The show raises profiles of POC while symbolizing an implicitly white Britishness
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6 min readFeb 10, 2020
When she first got the message asking if she’d be interested in writing a baking book, Benjamina Ebuehi thought it was a scam.
After reaching the quarterfinals of the “Great British Bake Off” in 2016 (and…