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Proof-reading fail – Peggy Porschen’s Boutique Baking

If you’re anything like me you like to have all your soldiers in a row, all your ingredients weighed and measured or your ‘mise en place’.  I recently bought Peggy Porschen’s Boutique Baking: Delectable Cakes, Cupcakes and Teatime Treats and set about baking the Neopolitan Marble Cake…

Adventures with Chocolate

I’m not quite sure where I found the barefaced cheek, and in Claridges of all places.   But, my lunchbox turned chocolate box at the launch of the new Valrhona Cooking with Chocolate cookbook.   Yes, reader, this is no joke.  I’m afraid it’s true.   I was listening to…