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Jun 08
Third Slice A Word from Anne: Our summer heat may already be in the 90s, but I welcome summer because it ushers in a new style of cooking and baking. The cooking gets lighter and more garden-focused, dinners are more relaxed without the dreaded homework to do afterward, and baking is just different. Cakes and [...]
Apr 21
A Word from Anne The first time I heard of Hummingbird Cake I was a young food writer working for the Atlanta Journal. A reader called the newspaper office and asked for a recipe for Hummingbird Cake. Naturally, I thought this was some sort of crank call along the lines of Prince Albert in the [...]
Feb 03
A Word from Anne What with horrendous weather and travel delays, winter book tours have their challenges. But they do make up for these inconveniences because I meet readers like you coast to coast. This week I am in Portland and Seattle, escaping for a moment the onslaught of snow and ice many of you [...]
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Nov 11
Caramel Cake to the Rescue My family knows to ask before they slice. With a mom who bakes cakes for a living, you never know when the cake at our house is for the camera, a signing, or a new book. We learned the hard way – I would bake a perfectly glazed chocolate chip [...]
Jul 01
Baking in the long, hot summer I’m on the plane from Nashville to New York, writing in that quiet bit of solitude mothers seldom find. By all reports I am going to sizzle once I step off the plane at LaGuardia. But summer heat and I go way back. A Southern girl with an August [...]
