The snack cakes from a small island
A brief introduction to the gato of Mauritius
Hello, Snackers. The French word for “cake” is “gâteau,” but filter that through a few hundred years of cultural exchange and colonialism and you get … gato.
The place
Mauritius, the small island nation off the east coast of the African continent. Map below, and here’s one with some gato to-go shops.