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Cake and Art owner Tom Rosa recalls the rush for cupcakes the day gay marriage was legalized in California and of the hundreds of cakes baked for same-sex "commitment ceremonies" decades before.
Roji Bakery has served the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood for the past 20 years, serving up warm, fluffy Japanese shokupan (milk bread) and other baked goods. Owner Mizuki Shin talks about the yudane technique that makes milk loaf unique and reminisces on her memories eating shokupan as a child in Japan.
In 1942, Executive Order 9066 required all people of Japanese Ancestry to move to incarceration camps. The hardships from the forced relocation endured well after their return from the camps. After being uprooted from their homes, Japanese Americans had to rebuild. Many moved to the Crenshaw District of Los Angeles where the built a thriving community with Japanese owned businesses and organizations that provided social services, educated Asian youth, and fought for their civil rights.
Today, the Crenshaw district of South Los Angeles is known as a predominantly Black neighborhood, while Japanese Americans are most commonly associated with Little Tokyo, Sawtelle, Torrance and Gardena. But after World War II, Crenshaw had the largest concentration of Japanese Americans in the continental United States.