Zoë Bakes Cakes is about longing realized. Which of us hasn’t looked at pictures of beautiful baked goods online and sighed at the seeming impossibility of being able to bake like this at home? This is where Zoë François comes in — she enthusiastically creates the most incredible baked goods while demonstrating to home bakers how to achieve these same results for themselves. She comes across as
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Book Club Tuesday: To Asia, With Love
It has been a decade since Hetty McKinnon started her salad delivery business in Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia. From the small kitchen in her home on Arthur Street, she would pack up her salad boxes and deliver them on her bike to the people who lived and worked in her neighbourhood. Through delivering nourishing meals to customers, she began to Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: To Asia, With Love”
Book Club Tuesday: My Shanghai
A good cookbook offers an invitation in which home cooks are asked to try recipes and immerse themselves in the scents and flavours of someone else’s food, stories, and traditions. I’m sure it could go without saying — food is deeply personal and, cookbooks which are rooted in personal experiences tend to be Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: My Shanghai”
Book Club Pi(e) Day Edition: The Book on Pie
Let me tell you a story: when I was a kid, my mom would take my sister and I to her hometown so that we could spend the summers with my grandmother and all her extended family. My mom grew up in a charming little village in Ontario cottage country and the summers we spent there are some of the best summers in my memory. Down the road from my grandmother’s house was the two-story, white clapboard house that she grew up in, and it was where her unmarried sisters and brothers continued to live. Each morning my sister and I would Continue reading “Book Club Pi(e) Day Edition: The Book on Pie”
Book Club Tuesday: Torta della Nonna
Torta della Nonna by Emiko Davies — literally translated as “Grandmother’s Cake” — is a collection of classic Italian baking recipes. I have written before about the comfort that familiar recipes offer and, in the case of Emiko Davies’ latest book (a compilation of dessert recipes from her earlier Italian cookbooks — Florentine, Aquacotta, and Tortellini at Midnight — review here), she offers many Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Torta della Nonna”
Book Club Tuesday: One Tin Bakes
I used to wonder what drew people to baking. To me, it always seemed like an effort reserved for special occasions — but, in recent years I’ve begun to recognize the comfort and kindness found in baking. There is a feeling of comfort found in a familiar recipe and the way that it scents the house in Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: One Tin Bakes”
Book Club Tuesday: The Flavor Equation
In my last review, I looked at how Claire Saffitz’s Dessert Person worked to give home bakers more confidence by offering recipes and explanations that improved home bakers’ skills and techniques. Her positive affirmation: I am a Dessert Person really connects to the notion that anyone can become a baker through practice. Looking at what happens in home kitchens Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: The Flavor Equation”
Book Club Tuesday: Dessert Person
Baking, like anything else in life, is a skill acquired and developed through practice. I used to say when asked, “I can cook but I’m definitely not a baker!” because it always Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Dessert Person”
Book Club Tuesday: Root, Stem, Leaf, Flower
As promised, my last cookbook review of 2020! Part of me feels that this is a case of “saving the best for last” and, what I will tell you is that this might be the longest I’ve had a book before writing Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Root, Stem, Leaf, Flower”
2020 Cookbook Roundup: Baking Edition
More so than any other year (maybe even ever!), 2020 is the year that I have baked my heart out. And this isn’t because of the pandemic or lockdown either. At the end of 2019, I found myself with Continue reading “2020 Cookbook Roundup: Baking Edition”
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