When I was a child tagging along with my mom to the local bakery, I always marveled at the multi-colored slices of marble cake sitting behind the display window. How, I wondered, did the baker make a loaf that was both chocolate and vanilla? What prevented the batters from mixing together? Having a vivid (some would say wild) imagination, I …

As many a foodblogger will tell you, blogging about food ain’t easy. Behind the scenes of every published post lie a slew of preparatory stages, from selecting a recipe, to making the dish, to photographing it. Things get even more complex if you’re adapting said recipe or, better yet, creating one of your own. Yet above each of these challenges …

Work has been a flurry of meetings, ringing phones and flashing keyboards lately, so I decided to lighten things up with miniature loaves of strawberry bread. Topped with sliced almonds and flavored with mashed strawberries and almond extract, a slice of this pretty bread makes a tasty coffee companion. And the best part? The batter is pink! If I …

I generally don’t buy into all that “men are from mars, women are from venus” mumbo jumbo, but there are times when I think there are vast differences between the sexes. Remembering uncommonly detailed bits of conversation is one example. For as long as I’ve known my husband I’ve been asking questions like “What happened?” (when a buddy broke up …

For weeks I’ve been waiting to post this recipe for watermelon-strawberry sorbet, which I developed for C&H Sugar as part of their summer newsletter about food blogs. They asked me to wait until the newsletter was published and as of yesterday morning it’s online! So here is the recipe – with temperatures soaring into the mid 90’s in NYC the …