Layer cakes

I always tell people that my mom has been a great cook for as long as I can remember, but if I’m being honest, her cooking only entered my life when I was in the fourth grade or so. I still remember the birthday cake she made me for my eleventh birthday. Before that, I’d […]

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When I was in seventh grade, I wrote a pretty impassioned essay for my English class about how Valentine’s Day was a corporate holiday maintained by companies like Hallmark and Hershey’s to provide a predictable source of revenue year after year. Pretty original and incendiary stuff for a middle schooler, I know. I remember my […]

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On my most recent trip to England, my friend Kiron introduced me to a British reality TV contest called The Great British Bake Off. The show takes 13 amateur home bakers and presents them with different baking challenges to be judged and eaten by two celebrity chefs (Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood — I have […]

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Before I left for Europe, I thought that a vacation would do me good. With ten days to recharge away from the usual stresses of work and home, I thought I would come back and be ready to hit the ground running. But boy, how wrong I was! It’s almost as if my vacation had […]

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See that cake up top? Can you believe that it was made with just one bowl? Okay, that’s not true. It was supposed to be just one bowl, and I was supposed to just make one cake to use up all the odd quantities of ingredients I had lying around before I disappeared off to Amsterdam […]

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Guys, it’s official. I am a homeowner. It’s scary and exciting, but mostly scary. Because truth be told, the house right now is far from perfect. The reality of homeownership is sinking in as I discover hidden corners of mold in the house, broken door knobs, and large gaping holes left over from the previous […]

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