Pastry Chefs Emerge as Agents for Social Justice and Change

When Washington, D.C., pastry chefs Paola Velez, Willa Pelini and Rob Rubba started planning a virtual bake sale to support Black Lives Matter in June, they hoped to recruit 80 bakers and raise $10,000. But thousands of people took up whisks worldwide for Bakers Against Racism, generating more than $1.8 million in a matter of days. It demonstrated both the strength of the current social justice movement...