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Small-Batch Baking for Chocolate Lovers: Recipes for Cookies, Cakes, Pie, Tarts, Muffins and Scones. Debby Maugans. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press. $21.99. (340p) ISBN: 978-0-312-61224-5
The best things come in small packages. In the case of “Small-Batch Baking for Chocolate Lovers,” the best chocolate things come in small packages. Author Debby Maugans perfected the art of [...]
Bon Appétit Desserts: The Cookbook for All Things Sweet and Wonderful. Barbara Fairchild. Andrews McMeel Publishing. $40.00. (680p) ISBN: 978-0-7407-9352-3
I like books a lot. All types of books. I really, really like reference books. The comfort of all those facts, and answers so close at hand. But I love, love, love cookbooks. I’m a cookbook [...]
9.3 miles, about 23 minutes by car, or 10.8 miles, about 1 hour, 4 minutes by bus from my home in Atwater Village.
Food in New York. I used to know it so well. When I lived there during the ’80s and ’90s, and worked in the food business I knew every place there was to [...]