Baking

These ersatz pastries are sold without taste or conscience

Thanks to modern conveniences, it’s not to be feared

Where are the risk-takers of yore? This is far too safe, hardly a gamble at all

Where the Dying Swan is about nature and spirit terribly at odds, delicious and beautiful food literally keeps body and soul together

Difficult to pronounce. But oh-so divine and easy to make

There is something about the holiday that triggers overambition in occasional cookie-bakers like myself

When asked what was for dessert, I said, ‘Oh, it’s a topsy-turvy cake, just like this crazy world we live in now’