Mardi Michels 
You might know that I lived in Paris in my late 20s. Bought a one-way ticket, ostensibly so I could finish my PhD in French literature. I think if I look back and I’m honest, I probably knew that degree would never be completed – I wasn’t really sure why I was doing it (other … Read more
Win a copy of Paris Picnic Club! Thanks to the kind folks at Sterling Publishing, I have one copy of Paris Picnic Club (I wrote about it here to give away to one lucky US or Canadian reader! How to enter: There are 2 ways to enter (maximum of two entries per person for the … Read more
(^^^ SUCH focus!) The Petits Chefs were lucky to welcome Adell Shneer into the lab this week to talk to them about Wassily Kandinsky and show them how to decorate sugar cookies (channelling their inner Kandinsky!). Adell is a popular guest chef at our school and this was her NINTH visit to to work with … Read more
The Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi this week was a fairly simple whipped shortbread-y cookie that you might recognise as “the cookie from the blue tin (of Danish butter cookies)”. These tasted absolutely fantastic but I had a little trouble with the dough which is supposed to be piped out of a … Read more
I’m so excited to be featuring a book by Cameron Stauch, someone I’ve known (first online then in real life) for years. Cameron’s lived an interesting life – you only have to glance at his Amazon author page to see he’s got a lot of stories to tell – and recipes to share! When I … Read more
Win a copy of Vegetarian Viet Nam! Thanks to the kind folks at Penguin Random House Canada, I have one copy of Vegetarian Viet Nam (I wrote about it here to give away to one lucky Canadian reader! How to enter: There are 2 ways to enter (maximum of two entries per person for the … Read more