Paola Velez

11 Mar 2025

Celebrating Women’s History Month at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture! ✨ Join me for a special Bodega Bakes pop-up at Sweet Home Café every Friday in March, featuring my pastries and book signings on 3/14 & 3/28 from 10-12pm .

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11 Mar 2025

nmaahc.si.eduSweet Home Café Book Signing and Pastry Pop-up with Chef Paola VelezSweet Home Café Book Signing and Pastry Pop-up with Chef Paola Velez

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26 Feb 2025

open.substack.comSteal This Recipe: Yellow CakeHow to make this classic American staple — plus 13 ways to make it your own, how to scale it, and more.

12 Feb 2025

Happy Launch day for Steal This Recipe! @stealthisrecipe.substack.com open.substack.com/pub/stealthi...

10 Feb 2025

This one is for the folks who think “who the hell does she think she is— she’s easily replaceable talent— she’s not worth __ amount”

10 Feb 2025

People just assume I’m up to nothing because of my goofy approach to life but here’s what I’ve been up to just in the cookbook arena. Best Cookbooks of ‘24: NYT, WaPo, Food Network, BonApp, F&W, LA Times, Eater, Forbes, Delish, Robb Report, Library Journal, Amazon, B&N & best of ‘25 by RUSA CODES

10 Feb 2025

Happy Black History Year + ♾️

substack.comPaola Velez on SubstackNevin Martell is onto something—now more than ever, it’s tough to keep desserts on a menu, let alone a full pastry team. So what do we do? Let American pastry fade away or share our knowledge to keep ...

6 Feb 2025

substack.com/@paolavelez/... My quick thoughts on Nevin’s article for WCP

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6 Feb 2025

It was such an honor to have Paola read a preview of Potluck Desserts and receive such a touching review and endorsement. Thank you, @smallorchids.com for the sweetest words and heartfelt allyship to the Queer and Trans community! Preorder Now wwnorton.com/books/978168...

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5 Feb 2025

Whenever I bake for the camera, it feels like it takes forever. But I just knocked out 2 recipe tests in 1/2 the time while loading the dishwasher 2x & cleaning the kitchen. Like—why does filming turn a 30-min bake into a full-day production? IDK, how did I even get myself into making food videos? 🥴

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Steal This Recipe

“But if you’re really that DIVA… just make more recipes.”

open.substack.comSteal this free recipe: Italian ButtercreamThis recipe is FREE.99?! Yes Lord! (in the voice of Anderson .Paak)

Did you know I have a substack community called Steal this recipe? Join here: open.substack.com/pub/stealthi...

My publisher just emailed to let me know that Bodega Bakes was honored by RUSA during their Book & Media Awards Ceremony at ALA LibLearnX. Congrats to all the other Essential Cookbooks of 2025! lnkd.in/esMmJNbr

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3 Feb 2025

Carrot buttermilk pie, nasturtium coconut cream pie, sorrel snickerdoodle’s & campfire brownies

2 Feb 2025

I’m confused by the lack of action.. why this isn’t this something that (they) were paying attention to beforehand to protect all of us…. Like I’m genuinely confused as to how we’re all just standing here with our mouths hanging open… am I the only one?

29 Jan 2025

Hibiscus Greek yogurt

26 Jan 2025

I am sad to think about what the current event we’re living will do to the breakthroughs of diversity within the restaurant industry as we know it. I hate that I even have to go there but the impact on 🧊 alone is going to be a a defining event for the industry

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23 Jan 2025

Check out Chef Paola. She started a substack

Paola Velez@smallorchids.com

It’s time to try something new 🧡 stealthisrecipe.substack.com/about Follow my other Bluesky account @stealthisrecipe.substack.com

23 Jan 2025

It’s time to try something new 🧡 stealthisrecipe.substack.com/about Follow my other Bluesky account @stealthisrecipe.substack.com

🥺

How the first month of the year feels so far

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Broderick

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Do you remember when @tarajiphenson.bsky.social looked dead at the camera and told people to look up #Project2025 and it started trending on Google? I do.

When we try to reason with folks without reason it doesn’t work right? So here’s something I like to lead with ALL OF YOUR FAVORITE FOOD WILL COST YOU MORE MONEY. Forget the cost of eggs Some of yall (idk if they on this app) don’t know how to cook. And you order out a lot. Godspeed frfr

When I used to think about the ailments of the culinary industry, I often thought about behavior in leadership, rent/costs of goods and labor increases. 🧊 targeting the culinary workforce will directly impact the industry with lasting ramifications. There’s a “known unknown” that 60-70% of the

Culinary workforce are immigrants. There’s a mixture of documented and undocumented, that percentage isn’t accounted for. But what I do know is that this will change the course of our industry’s lifeline. Porters, cooks, farmers, delivery drivers and everything in between.

Folks there’s no coming back from this.

🧊 raids affect the whole culinary industry. The whole domestic food chain is about to be impacted. You won’t have to worry about tariffs, the call is coming from inside the house.

That’s me 🥲🥺💗 haha I have to run to buy a copy haha

Veena's Booksky@mswocreader.bsky.social

Got my new copy of Food and Wine I spy @chefpaola.bsky.social

20 Jan 2025

Baked Alaska Shaved Ice available at @barprovidenciadc.bsky.social 💗 #pastry #kakigori #paolavelez #chef #dessert

This weekend has truly been a doozy.

This is a wonderful lesson on how we don’t own any digital real estate on web 2. Especially on any of these apps. For websites we pay fees for our domains and to host on servers. (We can say we rent there with a ‘*’.)

How we utilize and maneuver through these platforms is still at the whim of the owners of the digital real estate. We can only reach as far and do what we can when it’s to the benefit of these platforms and businesses.

There is always, and I mean always an exchange. It’s not just an app that we create on or an app that we scroll or consume on. Once you keep this top of mind, you can understand how to feel when moments like the TT ban happen.

On these platforms we pay our fees in “in-kind labor”. We create to keep viewers and engagement high for these platforms. More viewers for the platforms = quantative and qualitative data for these platforms. Our in-kind reward is influence and status. (For some)

I’m curious what marketing will look like now that TikTok isn’t going to be a leader in the space. ig and other apps haven’t been as unhinged or raw

Haha I don’t want to be a bummer but as we’re being distracted by the news of the TT ban, what else is happening that we all might not be catching right now 🥺

VIRTUAL DEMO RAFFLE BENEFITING BLACK LOS ANGELENOS- Virtual Demo perks: 🧁 Win a free copy of Bodega Bakes 🧁 Pick a recipe from Bodega Bakes to bake 🧁 1:1 virtual bake along for 1-10 people of your choice with an exclusive Q&A session 🧁 Hanging out with your fave internet bestie lol

How to enter: 1. Gofundme Donations- Donate directly to any of the families listed in the google document 2. Email your donation receipt to cakemakestheworldabetterplace@gmail.com for a chance to win.

Entry Window: Starting from 1/13-2/4* * On 2/5 a winner will be picked at random and will be contacted via email. **Please note, only donations made from 1/13-2/4 will be counted as eligible for a chance to win. Multiple entrees are accepted :) and no donation is too small!

As many of you may know, there’s a large resource on google docs pulled together by @lesvargass and @afropunk that lists the gofundme pages for multiple Black families that were affected by the wildfires in L.A.

In support of this , I am raffling off an exclusive virtual demo (1 hour) with me to one of you all.

Forgot to screenshot the TikTok pop up. But I am intrigued to see how different these notes are.

I didn’t realize we could post videos on Bluesky! 😨 #recipes

14 Jan 2025

The Gloria is a cross between a dry, orange Negroni and a bitter orange martini. Let’s make this cocktail, my way: 1.5 oz Gunpowder Irish Gin .5 oz Campari .5 oz Vermú Rosé (rose vermouth) .5 Aperol Orange Twist - for Garnish. #recipe