Marble Cake

There isn’t so much to say about marble cake. While you’ll find it in just about every Polish cake shop, this simple chocolate-and-vanilla cake isn’t truly Polish—it’s a classic cake that’s popular the world over whose roots are likely in the Austro-Hungarian baking tradition. So, here’s a digression: In the 1980s, the children’s book author Carol Chapman wrote a story called The Tale of Meshka the Kvetch, illustrated by Arnold Lobel. Meshka<