Goodreads asked Medea Kalantar:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Medea Kalantar When I found out I was going to be a Grandma It was a full circle moment for me, so I started to bake a honey cake in honour of my Grandmother who was my moms’ mother may she rest in peace. My Bebi taught me how to bake a honey cake when I was a little girl. As I was making the cake, I realized all the different spices the cake had, like cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, vanilla, brown sugar and honey. It made me think of all the different ethnic mixes my new grand baby would have and how they would be just like this honey cake I was baking. That’s where the title of the series came from and the idea for the first book that would introduces the readers to our entire family. Hence, Honeycake: A Family of Spices. The words and stories started to pour out of me. I wrote 5 books in 4 days.

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