Bill Knapp's restaurants started in Battle Creek and became part of family traditions all around the Midwest. The star of the show, though, the chocolate cake.
Hailed as the man who discovered North America (...though native people pretty much had that locked down, already), Christopher Columbus would become a much debatable historic figure. Explorer? Murderer? Megalomaniac?
I think the only way to truly understand this layered man, and the discovery that made him famous, is to have cake explain it.
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