In keeping with such modest ambitions, Cake has not released an album in two years.
The Unlimited Sunshine tour, the maiden voyage Kinky shared with Cohen's Flaming Lips, featured what can only be described as a smorgasbord of acts: Modest Mouse, Cake, De La Soul, and, as Ulises describes them: "a hilly billy group made up of 10 semi-musicians, semi-mechanics called The Hackensaw Boys".
It suffers in comparison with a modest, neatly pressed cake of bacalao in tomato sauce on white rice, with a cheery fried egg on top.
The dessert table had a modest assortment of cakes and brownies and an empty coffee dispenser.
The easy choice is the last one on the list, a modest-looking bittersweet chocolate cake that's halfway toward being a pudding.
At the lunchtime reception, Queen Elizabeth is expected to lay out a modest spread of Champagne, wedding cake and two-bite appetizers, or canapes.
And Victor Nava, a Mexico City caterer, added that even the most modest Mexican pastelería will contain cakes and tarts that owe their existence to the French pâtisseries of the 19th century.
This week, Schwarzman's 62nd birthday was apparently marked in modest style – a brief celebration with cake and drinks in Blackstone's boardroom.
At the end of the session, the man with the paunch brings out a cake as they deliver a modest rendition of Happy Birthday to the woman beside me.
Reading "The Raw and the Cooked" made us yearn to sit quietly over plates of pan-fried chicken and chocolate layer cake at the counter of some modest cafe in rural Iowa.
