• Cracking the Granola Bar Case

    Ever since I had the Best Granola Bar in the World last year, I’ve been on a quest to recreate it from scratch. The treat in question wasn’t some high-end…

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  • “Never Fail” Chocolate Cake

    My mom was never much of a baker. However, she’s always had a great love of chocolate cake. These opposing forces found an unlikely convergence point, back in 1974, in…

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  • Why in the World is the Whole World Baking?

    When I wrote my last post about the magic dough, I certainly wasn’t anticipating the current epidemic. You know, the global baking epidemic? I don’t know about you, but my…

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  • The Magic Dough

    What if I told you there’s a homemade bread dough you can put together in minutes, with only a handful of ingredients, and no rise time? Gina (Skinnytaste) Homolka’s formula…

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  • Pasar Ubud

    When I was planning a sabbatical trip to Southeast Asia, I looked around to see if there might be any photography-related excursions along my route. I stumbled across a morning…

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  • Meeting Anthony Bourdain

    It took me a couple of weeks after the sad news of Anthony Bourdain’s death to remember that I’d met him once. After it hit me, the details started coming…

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