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  • Susan’s Spungen’s Chocolate Semifreddo with Candied Salted Almonds

    Good morning! Have I ever told you about the time I interviewed to work in the test kitchen at Martha Stewart Living, back in the fall/winter of 2000/2001? I had recently left Paris behind me and was hoping to get a job in publishing in New York. My sights were set on book publishing, but I…

  • Emma Laperruque’s Nutella Buckwheat Brownies

    I have been feeling a little…fragile as of late. For example, this obituary made me cry. This book that I finished last night left me with the most sickening case of existential dread. I went into the boys' room this morning for a morning snuggle, but one boy was happily reading in his top bunk…

  • The Bojon Gourmet’s Gluten-Free Teff Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies with Walnuts and Cranberries

    Let's talk about good things today. Call My Agent. A television show (4 seasons) set in a Paris film agency called ASK (Agence Samuel Kerr) that includes real-like movie stars (think Isabelle Huppert, Monica Bellucci, Juliette Binoche) playing themselves as clients of the agency. We just finished watching last night and oh, how we enjoyed…

  • David Lebovitz’s Gluten-Free Chocolate Tahini Brownies

      Beep. Boop. Hello. I thought maybe you could use a panful of brownies today. Couldn't we all?   I have been looking forward to telling you about these brownies. For a very long time, I am more than chagrined to admit, I couldn't quite grasp the concept of tahini in baked goods. Tahini, in…

  • Homemade Chocolate Treats for Valentine’s Day

    Happy Valentine's Day! In case you might still be looking for a last-minute treat to bake for your darlings, here's a little round-up of my favorite chocolate delights that are, for the most part, easy to whip up with what you've got in your pantry already (or that you could get on an emergency run…

  • Gerhard Jenne’s Bittersweet Brownies with Cranberries

    Drowning as I am in cakes and cookies and sweet breads, I have absolutely no business – none! – making brownies on my day off. But I couldn't help it! I'm sorry! It's just that I was looking through a book that a British publisher sent to me last year (written by a German baker…

  • Ashley Rodriguez’s Bittersweet Brownies with Salted Peanut Butter Frosting

    According to the internet, the East Coast of the US is about to be swathed in an apocalyptic amount of snow. Meanwhile, over here, it's just miserably gray, as it always always always is this time of year. I can't remember the last time I saw the sun. Hugo, who is really into SAAHN! and…

  • Jane Hornby’s Malted Chocolate Birthday Cake

    On Friday afternoon, Hugo and I were hanging out at home when talk turned, as it so often has lately, to cake. "CAAAAYKE, mama, ja?" So I said something responsible and mom-like, like, "well, it's dinnertime soon, so there's no cake today. But tomorrow is Saturday! So we can make a cake tomorrow." To which…

  • Alice Medrich’s Cocoa Brownies

    Darlings, I have an apartment! With real walls, ceilings, windows – windows! – and a balcony looking at rooftops. The balcony is currently filled with snow drifts, but does that matter? Not one little bit. It features largely in my nighttime fantasies in which pure golden sunlight drifts down from the heavens as I sit…

  • Bret Thompson’s Double Chocolate Cookies

    Uhh. Looky there. Chocolate. On chocolate. More chocolate. Can't speak, can't think. COOOKIE. Is this what it feels like to be a 15-year old boy in the presence of a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model? The Culinary SOS column has struck again and with a vengeance. I read it last Wednesday and by Thursday night was…