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Dec 14
You know it’s December when the calendar is over-committed, the refrigerator stocked high with butter and eggs, and you bake before bedtime. That’s the case at our house, even though with just one child left at home there are fewer teacher gifts to make. We pull out my mother’s toffee recipe, make a coconut or [...]
Aug 31
To many of you, fall brings to mind football, tailgating, back-to-school supplies, changing colors of the leaves, and local apples to bake into pies, cakes, applesauce—you name it. To me, fall is all of this, plus book tour. A ritual started more than a decade ago, my fall book tours signal a new book, the [...]
Aug 02
You might think I’m crazy if I said my favorite time to cook was in the dog days of summer, but it’s true. I love cold suppers of fried chicken, sliced tomatoes, and potato salad. I love last night’s leftover grilled steak sliced atop greens with a spicy Thai dressing. I adore the ease of [...]
Feb 08
A Word from Anne: Valentine’s Day is around the corner, and thank goodness this food writer made it through January — the most unfriendly month to cake baking in the year! Love for baking is in the air — I feel it — so I thought it would be a good time to share with [...]
Dec 07
A Word from Anne: I used to dash to flights at the last minute, begging Delta not to close the plane door. But now, thanks to maturity and airport security lines, I arrive early, painfully early. I pack days in advance, run through mental lists in my sleep the night before, and am proof that [...]
