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Book-Inspired Baking * Reviews + Recipes * Laura Sackton
One of the best things about reading is all the doorways it opens. Reading can be a visual or aural or tactile experience, depending on the kind of reading you’re doing. But beyond the immediate experience of absorbing words into your brain, via sound or touch or sight, there’s all the sensory experiences that reading evokes. Some books elicit a strong emotional response. Others make me feel a particular way in my body — angry or excited or overwhelmed. Often, …
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Alley Cat * Creative Nonfiction * Michele Rappoport
The smell of fresh paint always takes me back to my first apartment in Washington, D.C., a three-room efficiency in a squat brick building that hissed like a radiator after a summer rainstorm. Somehow, I’d convinced my parents that living off campus would be cheaper my junior year. Maybe it was. But it was my yearning for a solo shot, a chance to prove my growing independence from them in a way I didn’t feel was possible living in the …
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Munsterthal Torte * Jazz Baking Video * Marc Wagnon & Sarah Pillow * Includes Recipe!
From the picturesque village of Chandolin, situated in the Val D’Anniviers (a valley in the Swiss Alps) comes this delightful jazz baking video by Marc Wagnon and Sarah Pillow that will tickle your ears with its jazz melody and enchant your eyes with its lovely alpine scenery while it teaches you to make a traditional Munsterthal Torte. The recipe comes from Marc’s grandmother Alice Schellenberg. As you’ll learn, it’s very chocolatey, a bit boozy, and oh so delicious. If you …
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