Welcome to Blind Spot, where we take time to dig into something big in the cultural zeitgeist we might have missed. A retrospective that’s also a first time perspective. What’s old to you, is new to someone else and in the spirit of that I present to you my Cake Retrospective.

They say everything old is new again and at least to my “geriatric” millennial eyes it means my generation’s being sold nostalgia while...