• If it is to be said, so it be, so it is

    Oh, hi there! Thanks so much all for coming out on this misty saturday morning. Im both moved and touched. As is custom I begin with an acknowledgement that I… Read more

  • Canelé? More like Cantelé

    canelé i hardly knew you. the most easily overlooked, deceptively unpromising young women of the patisserie world. it takes a big, chonky man to admit when theyre wrong and i/xir,… Read more

  • Do ahead diva!

    god. sorry, how embarrassing. please ignore m’heirlooms. dont know how they got in there! not here to talk about tomates. nor whatever narcissistic injury you may be nursing this week.… Read more

  • Captain correlli’s mandarin

    Wfh lunch al desko amirite?? I simply adore to read. I also simply adore to collect autumn produce (and impingements. but a story for another time!). Your crimson grapes, radiculos,… Read more

  • why do bad things happen to good people?

    And another question: what do you do when you buy a gigante bowl? A: (with the help of souvenaid) remember that you vowed to do so last time you made… Read more

  • Dont know why i bother/a tender crumb

    Not a peep out of a single one of you. Not on the cookie, neither nor on the theme and variations on tart neither nor on the cake. And then… Read more

  • Great bitter lake/fewer better things

    Who can say, in troth, that there is no place for a cakey cookie? Who would not recognise in the Amercan chewy varietal the two qualities constitutive of the great… Read more

  • Chips Ahoy mateys!

    First time i ever et a chips ahoy – or rather, more specifically the chewy CA varietal – was at a house party hosted by the daughter of Billy Connolly.… Read more

  • “I wouldn’t request it, specifically”

    Like so much in life/friendship, this promised so much and delivered, at best, a great deal less. That said, it was not dry as the above infographic would suggest, nor… Read more

  • ETERNAL VIGILANCE!

    We have a lot of laffs here at schleps. a lot of laffs. now dont get me wrong, i enjoy the fun as much as the next man. but theres… Read more

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