MyCake

A strange little side quest

Between one round of MyCake and the next, this is worth knowing: Nancy Johnson patented a hand-cranked ice-cream freezer in 1843 that used an inner churning chamber surrounded by ice. And then there is this: The Oregon Trail began in 1971 when three student teachers created a computer simulation to help Minnesota schoolchildren learn American history. That long chain of experiments is part of why food history still feels fresh when a game finds the right twist.