NUTS by Alice Clayton has a very simple title and a very common premise, but don’t let that dissuade you from reading it. It is amusing, the characters (both primary and secondary) have a good bit of depth even if they are tropes masquerading as characters. The best parts though? It is a love letter to food, cooking and baking, AND the author has wonderfully descriptive passages that made this reader drool and want the recipes. By turns slapstick and feminist, it is a perfectly […]
A love note about my longtime companion
A little more than 10 years ago I made a huge change in my life. I quit my quasi-legal job at a large non-profit, started massage therapy school, and started working at a small bakery. Prior to working at the bakery, my baking expertise was cake. My bread baking had been a spectacular failure, but I wanted to learn. My new boss hired me, not because I could bake, but because I was an adult with a car and could be trusted to open the […]