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      Review: Small-Batch Baking for Chocolate Lovers

      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 [...]

      *The Local Report – The Village Bakery and Cafe

      .2 miles, about 59 seconds by car, or 5 minutes on foot from my home in Atwater Village.
      In many places in the world a bakery is often the nexus of a neighborhood.  A place where the locals meet to buy baked goods and bread.  Bread, the so-called ’staff of life,’ is inexpensive nourishment [...]

      Review: Bon Appétit Desserts

      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 [...]

      Recipe: Onion Tart, or Tarte à l’Oignon

      Onion Tart, or Tarte à l’Oignon, or Zeewelkueche, or Zeewelwaïa
      Adapted from ‘Petit Recueil de la Gastronomie Alsacienne: 75 Recettes Simples’
      250 g. de pâte brisée/ 500 g. d’oignons /100 g. de lardon fumés/ 2 dl. de crème/ 2 dl. de lait/ 2 jaunes d’œufs/  50 g. de farine/ sel, poivre, noix de muscade.
      Foncer de pâte brisée, [...]

      Onion Tart, or Tarte à l’Oignon

      Une tarte à l’oignon, or onion tart, quickly became a favorite dish to eat when I lived in the Alsace region of France.  In the late ’70s I spent a year there working for a French family as an au pair, or mother’s helper.  The region is fairly wet and cold for a good portion [...]