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January and February mean that it’s king cake season: Bakeries all over Louisiana churn them out by the purple-green-and-gold thousands, many of them containing a plastic baby that symbolizes, to the one who finds it in their slice, luck, prosperity, and the responsibility to provide the next king cake. “But what we see today is quite different from the original celebration,” says Liz Williams, the founder and president of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum in New Orleans. Here, Williams takes us through how the king cake tradition has evolved (and if you’ve ever gotten the baby, you’ll be glad times have changed).