Bagels are the Best Ring-Shaped Breakfast Food and I Will Brook No Other Opinion By Michelle Weber Highlight I love bagels, but not as as much as Lloyd Squires loves bagels.
Bread, Disrupted By Michelle Weber Highlight Bread: it was so terrible, right? Thank goodness the tech industry finally iterated on it so we can make a decent piece of toast after 6,000 years.
A Family’s Pear Pie Tradition Binds Them Together By Danielle Jackson Highlight A woman makes sand-pear pie with her grandmother and remembers a family ritual.
Forgetting the Madeleine By Frances Leech Feature A pastry chef reflects on taste, memory, and literature’s most famous confection.
Cookie Tasting with Trump’s Billionaire Backer By Pam Mandel Commentary Before she was a major power broker in Washington, Rebecca Mercer was a bakery owner. Politico puts her cookies to the test.
Kitchen Rhythm: A Year in a Parisian Pâtisserie By Frances Leech Feature An Oxford grad learns to navigate boiling sugar, sleep deprivation, and exacting pastry chefs with whom she can barely communicate.
