About Allison Parker

Allison Parker is the managing editor for Leite’s Culinaria, as well as a developmental editor with more than 15 years’ experience in literary and academic publishing. Sharpening pencils and knives side by side in the kitchen, she now fuses her editorial and writing life with an abiding love of things culinary.

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Cracker Jack Mom

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Her ball park tradition of peanuts and popcorn flummoxed her French husband and her son—until she made her own.

A partially cut St. Phanourios cake on a wooden slab on a wooden chair.

Saint Phanourios’s Cake

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Bake this cake in honor of Phanourious, the patron saint of lost objects, and you just might find something you never knew was missing.

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Saints, Cakes, and Redemption

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Allison, our managing editor, discovers the blessings of making a phanouropita, a traditional Greek cake said to help the baker find missing things when it’s given away.