During my exchange year at university in Canada, I lived with a few Brazilians and we quickly bonded over our love of food. I’ll never forget the day one of them made me a carrot cake; he couldn’t quite understand the confusion on my face when he presented bright orange slices of cake topped with chocolate frosting. It was, of course, delicious, and arguably more of an actual carrot cake than the spiced version I’m used to.
