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Paris is burning

By Betty HallockDeputy Food Editor 
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Since the introduction of the City Bakery’s ‘Paris Hilton Visitor’s Cake’ last week, the cute little apple-spice cake with the nail file stuck in it made it not only to TMZ.com, but also to the Today Show, ABC, Fox News and German, Italian and Japanese television. ‘And tomorrow I’m an interview guest on a Kansas City commuter radio station,’ says City Bakery owner Maury Rubin.

‘I’m having a bit of a what-hath-I-wrought moment,’ he says. ‘I can’t believe how much media interest there’s been. It’s ridiculously trivial.... I don’t have a television, I barely know who Paris Hilton is. I just wanted to stick a nail file in a cake.’

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Meanwhile, the ‘Paris Hilton Visitor’s Cakes’ are selling like, um, hot cakes. Grab them while you can. Rubin says he may stop making them this week: ‘I don’t want City Bakery to be remembered for its Paris Hilton cake.’

-- Betty Hallock

The City Bakery, Brentwood Country Mart, 225 26th St., Los Angeles; (310) 656-3040.

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Betty Hallock

Betty Hallock is deputy Food editor at the Los Angeles Times. She has co-written four cookbooks, including “Bäco: Vivid Recipes from the Heart of Los Angeles,” “Amá: A Modern Tex-Mex Kitchen” and “Baking at République.” She started her journalism career at the Wall Street Journal and Scientific American in New York, worked on the L.A. Times’ Business desk, and was interim food editor at Los Angeles Magazine. Hallock also helped launch a food and nutrition vertical for wellness app RoundGlass. She’s a graduate of UCLA and New York University.

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