Cake Loves You Madly: Cooking And Eating

Though it’s been seven years since the last Cake studio LP, you can understand why it took the eclectic Sacramento, Calif., rockers so long to finish album number six. Like its predecessors, Showroom Of Compassion was self-produced, but for the new LP, the band members engineered it themselves in their solar-powered studio and released it on their self-run Upbeat label. And aside from gigging relentlessly, the group also organized the multi-genre Unlimited Sunshine Tours (which have featured bands as diverse as the Flaming Lips, De La Soul and Cheap Trick) and is currently in the planning stages for a 2011 UST. Cake—vocalist/pianist John McCrea, multi-instrumentalists Vincent DiFiore, Xan McCurdy and Gabriel Nelson and drummer Paulo Baldi—is taking to the road this week in support of Showroom Of Compassion, playing multiple nights in numerous cities. The band will also be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our new Q&A with DiFiore.

Vincent DiFiore: I firmly believe that whatever kind of food you have (vegetables, food from a previously cooked or dined-out meal) you should throw it into a saute pan or the oven with olive oil and salt, and there is a good chance that it will taste great. There is an amazingly broad interest in cooking now with all the cooking shows, but really all you have to do is buy whole foods that you like, cut them up and throw them in a pan. Let’s face it, day to day you get hungry. You need to eat without thinking about it so much. It makes sense to make the effort to pick up fresh produce while giving appreciation to these fresh ingredients from the dirt. That said, I’d add that if one were to watch about 10 30-minute Molto Mario episodes, they wouldn’t need to know anything more about food and cooking ever again.

Video after the jump.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt6Xvp0hx00