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Flo Braker

David Leite — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:32:03 +0000

Flo Braker has been teaching baking across the country for almost thirty-five years. She broke new ground in the literature of dessert making with her cookbook The Simple Art of Perfect Baking and the award-winning Sweet Miniatures: The Art of Making Bite-Size Desserts. She also collaborated with other bakers on The Bakers Dozen Cookbook. Her most recent work is the 2009 James Beard Award-nominated book Baking for All Occasions. She has been the Baker columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle food section since 1989.

Flo is a past president of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP), a charter member and past president of the San Francisco Professional Food Society, a charter member and past president of the Bakers Dozen in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is a 1997 inductee of The James Beard Foundation Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America. Flo has been featured in numerous publications and has made several guest appearances on television. A proud grandmother of three, she resides with her kind, supportive husband in Palo Alto, California.

Recipes
Lemon-Scented Pull-Apart Coffee Cake
Red Velvet Cake Roll
Eggnog Pound Cake with Crystal Rum Glaze
Lemon Tart With Blueberries
Pistachio Cake
Golden Caramels
Meringue Bubbles
Hedgehogs
Apricot Pound Cake

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Charity Ferreira

David Leite — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:12:56 +0000

Charity Ferreira is a food writer and recipe developer whose work has appeared in Sunset, Gourmet, and Bon Appétit magazines, as well as well as the Los Angeles Times. She is the author of Brittles, Barks, & Bonbons: Delicious Recipes for Quick and Easy Candy, Williams-Sonoma Eat Well: New Ways to Enjoy Foods You Love, Ice Cream Treats: Easy Ways to Transform Your Favorite Ice Cream into Spectacular Dessert, Ice Cream Treats and Peeps. A graduate of the California Culinary Academy and a former pastry chef, Charity lives in Oakland, California.

Recipes
Spicy Pepita Brittle
Mocha-Hazelnut Truffles
Chocolate-Dipped Candied Citrus Peel

Mocha-Hazelnut Truffles

Menu: Day of the Dead

Chocolate-Dipped Candied Citrus Peel

Grace Young

David Leite — Sun, 21 Nov 2004 17:34:32 +0000

Grace Young is the author of The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen and the co-author of The Breath of a Wok. Her books been honored with IACP awards including the 2005 Jane Grigson Award for scholarship. She is the 2008 recipient of the eGullet Society for Culinary Arts & Letters Culinary Journalist Scholarship. Young has been featured in The New York Times, “All Things Considered,” and on “CBS Sunday Morning.” Recently, she was just interviewed about Chinese New Years by Melissa Block on “All Things Considered.” Young is an avid wok collector and has woks from around the world stashed in her kitchen cabinets, her office, under her bed (unbeknownst to her husband), and in the closet of her New York City apartment. For 17 years Grace was the Test Kitchen Director for over 40 cookbooks published by Time-Life Books. One of her primary interests is the recording and preservation of Chinese culinary traditions. She is currently working on a new cookbook, Stir-Frying to the Sky’s Edge to be published 2010. Visit her website at graceyoung.com.

Recipes
Walter Kei’s Sweet and Sour Spareribs
Mama’s Noodles with Mushrooms and Ham
Chicken with Sichuan Peppercorns
Good Fortune Sweet and Sour Spareribs

Good Fortune Sweet and Sour Spareribs

Walter Kei’s Sweet and Sour Spareribs

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