“It’s a patisserie,” Winifred would say primly. “Insisting that I can’t call it a patisserie just because I’m not French is racist, Vera.” “It’s not because you’re not French, Winifred; it’s because you don’t serve French pastries. Your cake shop serves Chinese pastries.” “Many of them are French-influenced!” “Just because you call your taro bun petit pain au taro does not make it French influenced.”
