"The baking life is one of many sorrows, and I have seen or tasted them all," writes Jennifer Steinhauer in today's
New York Times. Has there ever been a more brilliant story lead? I think not. (Which is why Jennifer writes for the Times and I write for A Cake Bakes, but I digress.)
The article in the Dining section can be read
here and I
encourage insist that you start it. (After that, you'll be hooked and read to the end.) The author -- using humor and insight -- bemoans modern-day bake sales, whose tables are more often laden with store-bought treats than the homemade goodies that gave rise to the practice. Jennifer highlights the contradiction between the food-obsessed (who eat only local-origin foods in restaurants where even the waiters are grass-fed) and the lack of love (for what is baking if not love) proffered at these old-school fundraising events. And she is profoundly sympathetic to the non-bakers among us: "I do not have anything against people who do not bake. The culinary arts, for those with no interest in them, are nothing more than housework," she writes.
Are you hooked yet? If not on baking, then at least this wonderful story.
Pictured up top is some gingerbread I made last night -- and will write about tomorrow. Come to think of it, gingerbread would be a fine addition to a bake sale table.
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