I haven’t had a very good week. Some people get back-to-school style blues once the summer is over but I’m getting them right as it’s beginning. I have always had a fickle relationship with this season. As a kid, I counted down the days until I’d be free from school and then about a week […]
One of my all time favorite questions to ask people is “what is your favorite dessert?” I’m the life of parties. I inevitably end up cornering some poor soul and extolling my preference for beet sugar over cane sugar while they anxiously eye an escape route. I really can’t help myself. I keep a note […]
Historically I have not been the biggest fan of cupcakes. I think I’ve always considered them to be sort of juvenile, possibly due in part to spending countless school birthday parties watching classmates lick all the frosting off the top as if it were a puppy and they were mother dogs. Somewhere along the way […]
I am the designated “birthday baker” in my family. If, like me, you share the responsibility of making sure everyone has a dessert suited to their taste and season of birth then you know it is a duty that is both rewarding and demanding. In my case, it doesn’t help that I have a relatively […]
I don’t have an ice cream maker. Until recently this has been a bit of an existential problem for me. How could I enjoy my summers, my life, without being able to make the most ultimate, heat-busting, soul-soothing delicacy in the comfort of my home? I also felt personally isolated every time the Barefoot Contessa […]
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