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The Pie I’ll Never Shut Up About
  + stars: | 2024-07-10 | by ( Lisa Donovan | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
You get to take time to enjoy the kind of inspiration that being alone in a giant kitchen full of your tools and favorite recipes might bring. On those mornings, I would use my early arrival as a chance to thumb through my cookbooks. Some of these books were by renowned pastry chefs, but a majority were castoffs from rummage sales and “free” bins at the library. They were full of recipes that people once exchanged verbally before eventually typing them up and binding them with plastic spirals. In these volumes, I found inspiration and personal stories — and often scrap papers with handwritten recipes tucked among the pages.
To make a stodgy cake is human. To soak that cake in sweet milk is divine. The long and sometimes boozy history of soaked cakes is a varied and delightful category of the human baking experience. Just a few weeks ago, in a small chateau in France, after teaching several baking workshops, I found myself with an excess of brioche. Letting it sit out overnight to dry, then creating a syrup of whatever you choose, so long as it includes rum.
Locations: France
An Orange Cake From a Revolutionary Chef
  + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Lisa Donovan | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +4 min
I was a baking-and-pastry devotee and did not yet have the experience of working among ornery savory chefs with their own idols and heroes. Ms. Lewis was as savory a chef as I had studied at that point, but I mostly focused on her pies, cakes and breads. Back then, I regretted when savory chefs commandeered the dessert menu. This is the trademark of pastry chefs of my generation. We have been brought up in both worlds, learning the rules and then adjusting to our moment and materials, as savory chefs do.
Persons: Sal, Aaron, Jesse, Pierre Hermé —, Hermé’s, Dorie Greenspan —, Claudia Fleming, Gina DePalma, Lindsey Shere, Elisabeth Prueitt, Edna Lewis, Lewis, Paul Bertolli’s, Panisse Organizations: Big Locations: Oakland, Calif
Lisa Donovan was juggling pings from multiple Slack channels and email windows when she inadvertently sent a sensitive company document to the wrong person. The part-time accountant for a Virginia-based academic coaching firm toggles between 30 instant-messaging channels, four client-email accounts and at least a dozen phone or video calls a day, she says.
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