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Sweets: baking, and canning, and enjoying. Oh my!
We all deserve a little sweetness. So this week, we’re all about baking, preserving, and appreciating desserts. Rose Levy Beranbaum shares her “Baking Basics.” We’ll hear about an unusual homage to cake.
By Evan Kleiman • • 56m ListenWe all deserve a little sweetness. So this week, we’re all about baking, preserving, and appreciating desserts. Rose Levy Beranbaum shares her “Baking Basics.” We’ll hear about an unusual homage to cake. Joyce Goldstein is a master of preservation.. And Food52’s Kristen Miglore collects essential sweet treat recipes in “Genius Desserts.” Also: sunchokes at the market and LA’s love for pan dulce.
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6 stories‘Baking Basics’
Rose Levy Beranbaum is a baking savant, with classic texts to her name such as “The Cake Bible,” as well as a popular blog that reaches aspiring bakers around the globe. But with her 11th cookbook , she’s getting back to basics.
Read the story12 minCelebrating cake
Artist Maira Kalman and food writer Barbara Scott-Goodman recently teamed up on an unusual project: an illustrated celebration of their shared love of cake.
Read the story8 min‘Jam Session’
Popular among DIYers and commonly referred to as “canning,” preserving fruits went from being a new hobby to a decades-long commitment for Joyce Goldstein when she moved to San Francisco and had access to quality produce.
Read the story9 min‘Genius Desserts’
For many bakers, once they find a trusty recipe for crust or frosting, they’ll rarely deviate. Kristen Miglore from Food52 has the enviable task of testing countless recipes, looking for the most infallible versions.
Read the story11 minMarket Report: Sunchokes
At Viviane in Beverly Hills, chef Michael Reed uses the nutty sweetness of market-fresh sunchokes to deepen his dishes complexities.
Read the story8 minLA’s love for pan dulce
Pan dulce, or sweet bread, has for decades been a staple of working-class Latino communities in Los Angeles. The breads can evoke a strong sense of nostalgia for both recent immigrants and those who were born and raised here.
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