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But the Parsnip Cake Can Go Straight to Hell

Snacking Bakes by Yossy Arefi

February 22, 2024 by Mrs. Julien 16 Comments

If you are kind enough to ask me about myself, I will tell you I’m a baker. If you are unwise enough to have follow up questions, I will feel compelled to provide immediate clarification. Baking yeasted bread is not especially enjoyable for me because, to quote Lizzie Acker on The Great British Bake Off, “You never know what it’s thinking.”  While I made my family’s bread for years, and recently started again to redirect my baking impulses into something less calorically suspect, I don’t […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food, Featured, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Baking, cookbook, cookbook review, desserts, snacks, sweet desserts, Yossy Arefi

Mrs. Julien's CBR16 Review No:8 · Genres: Cooking/Food, Featured, Non-Fiction · Tags: Baking, cookbook, cookbook review, desserts, snacks, sweet desserts, Yossy Arefi ·
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Sweet Desserts by Lucy Ellmann

November 13, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Lucy Ellmann made a splash this year by being nominated for the Booker Prize and making the short list for her novel that tops out at close to 1000 pages and I think contains a single sentence of stream of consciousness in the mind of a housewife in the American midwest. This book, and perhaps her subsequent ones, set up that book in its form. This book is also close to if not stream of consciousness of two sisters, one narrating, the other being narrated, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: lucy ellmann, sweet desserts

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:631 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: lucy ellmann, sweet desserts ·
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