A Cake For Glorious RBG

Today is Ruth Bader Ginsburg's 83rd birthday, and perhaps you would like to bake her a suitable cake. You could do worse than to consult the recipes in a little book published by the Supreme Court Historical Society. It's called Chef Supreme: Martin Ginsburg, and it's a compilation of  the recipes of RBG's late husband, the eminent tax lawyer and gourmet cook Martin Ginsburg. Flip to page 100, where you'll find Decadent Chocolate Bombe, the recipe for which requires four pages, usefully divided into separate sections: “The Cake,” “The Cocoa Syrup,” “The Ground Almonds,” “The Mousse,” "Chocolate Sauce," "Chocolate Glaze," etc.As Marty wrote in his introduction to the extremely complicated recipe, "Only a crazy person would try to make this dessert in a single day." The cookbook is laced with such bons mots, making it a delightful read. (Another example from the Chocolate Bombe recipe: "[W]hen you press down with your warm hand on the bottom . . . of the bowl, the frozen mousse will slide right out onto the cake round." New paragraph: "Probably it will not.")So--maybe you shouldn't attempt this cake today, unless you're already a master baker. Here's another idea: You could celebrate RBG's big day by clicking over to the audio of the oral argument in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, which the Supreme Court heard on March 2. You'll hear Justice Ginsburg there in fine form, especially starting around minute 38.Happy birthday, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.