The book has 105-plus recipes, with chapters devoted to Breakfasts, Salads, Sandwiches, Tarts and Pizzas, Meatless Main Courses, Main Courses with Meat or Fish, and oh yes, a whole lot of Sweets, from Cookies to Pies to Tarts to Cakes and Candies and Puddings. They’re sweet and a touch salty, there’s vanilla and dark brown sugar and when they bake together, terrible things happen, such as the fact that they disappear quickly, and you have to make more. Those are called buttered popcorn cookies. My editor was visiting that day, and I was just fiddling around, trying to make us a little lunch. What’s that, you ask? It for a tiny recipe called tomato shortcakes. But today, I have a few things to hold us over.įirst, this above? That’s the cover. Even though these have been the busiest and most overwhelming years of my entire life, they’ve also been the most exciting and inspiring. Two and three-quarter years later, the “baby” is 2 1/2, I am the proud owner of 2 1/2 gray hairs and, oh, right: The book is done. ![]() Because new mothers are swimming in free time (“new babies are always sleeping!”), I thought I would finish the book in six months nine, tops. ![]() When I was 32 weeks pregnant in the summer of 2009 (in fact, this was overflowing on my kitchen counter during my first meeting across town) and should have been doing normal third trimester things like eating jars of Peanutella by the spoonful and repainting the baseboard trim (which still looks awful, not that this will surprise you), I instead decided that I really wanted to write a cookbook.
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