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By Tripp Laino
Most of us who watch Food Network's Ace of Cakes feel like we know Duff Goldman.
He's the wacky Baltimore baker who has done everything from making cakes move to blowing them up - and always with a smile plastered to his face. His bakery, Charm City Cakes, turns out re-creations of everything from car engines that blow smoke to a scale model of Chicago's Wrigley Field, complete with ivy-covered walls. His team of painters and cake engineers constructs elaborate edible designs under the watchful eye of the Food Network's cameras.
And just as the cakes he bakes don't fit conventional standards, Goldman's path into a pastry shop doesn't fit into a standard 9-inch cake pan, either.
Goldman said he caught the food bug early, watching his mother and grandmother in the kitchen.
"Everything we ate was homemade," he said.
He also grew up watching early incarnations of food television.
"Some of my earliest memories are watching [In the Kitchen with Chef Tell] on black and white while my mom was cooking," Goldman said.
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