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Article: Big Apple? Forget it. New York is all about the cupcake. Big Apple? Forget it. New York is all about the cupcake.(Daily Break)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- September 6, 2009
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By Beth J. Harpaz
The Associated Press
NEW YORK
THIS CITY IS crazy for cupcakes. There are cupcake classes and cupcake tours, lines down the block at cupcake bakeries, a cupcake tea at a five-star hotel and a cupcake truck with 6,000 followers on Twitter.
Some date the cupcake craze to a "Sex and the City" episode in which Sarah Jessica Parker bit into a pink-frosted cupcake outside Magnolia Bakery on Bleecker Street. Nine years later, tourists still flock to the place. Current owner Steve Abrams has opened two more Magnolia shops in the past year, with a third to open soon in Grand Central.
"I love 'Sex and the City,' and I ...