Category Archives: Cakes
Let Me Count the Ways: St. Valentine’s Day 101 (Yes, There’s a French Connection)
Remember the old shoeboxes for valentines in your grade school classroom? How you’d decorate your box with all sorts of …
Thinking of Others as You Bite into that Bûche de Noël
David Lebovitz — a whiz of a pastry chef, cookbook author, and food blogger — got me thinking this morning …
Ladies of the Pen and the Cookpot: Edna Lewis
Who was Edna Lewis? Why call her an American Idol? Before she wrote The Edna Lewis Cookbook, The Taste of …
Cake of Bitterness: Children Cooking
As the old adage goes, ” it takes the cake.” None of us likes to recall our culinary disasters, and …
A Gallery of Birthday Cakes
It’s lovely to think that a birthday cake actually manifests an ancient custom, when — just like today — bakers …
Idylls of Cuisine, #54
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Snowbound … The Poetry, The Food, The Reality
Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o’er the fields, Seems now here to …
Fruitcake, Fermentation by Another Name
We never eat fruitcake because it has rum, And one little slice puts a man on the bum. Oh, can …
Halloween: Cake and Candles
Prolific nineteenth-century domestic scientist, Sarah Tyson Hetson Rorer, in her Home Games and Parties (1898, p. 139), wrote about some …
