by shortstreetcakes | Jul 11, 2012 | Events, Featured Cookbook, Friends, Homesweet Homegrown, Short Street Cakes, slow food
We had a lovely time last week at Robyn Jasko and Jennifer Biggs’ signing and reception for their book, Homesweet Homegrown: How to Grow, Make, and Store Food No Matter Where You Live. Robyn served up some awesome beet sangria, along with heirloom... by shortstreetcakes | Jun 21, 2012 | Events, Featured Cookbook, Friends, Homesweet Homegrown, Short Street Cakes
On Friday, June 29th from 6pm-8pm, at the Cake Shop at 225 Haywood Road in West Asheville, Short Street Cakes will host a book signing and heirloom cocktail party celebrating the release of Robyn Jasko’s new book Homesweet Homegrown: How to Grow, Make, and Store Food,... by shortstreetcakes | Mar 13, 2010 | Bibliomancy, Featured Cookbook
Today I will be reviewing the classic Southern Heritage Cakes Cookbook! (Southern Heritage, Oxmoor House, 1983)Jenne gave me this book a few months back, which, as you can see from the picture, she purchased at Mr. K’s Used Books for four dollars. Mr. K’s,... by shortstreetcakes | Sep 27, 2008 | Bibliomancy, Featured Cookbook
This is a lovely night on Short Street. Its late September, with a slightly chilly drizzle outside. The cakes and icings are all really fresh and happy from the cool weather. Eileen and I have been working all day on the three weddings plus the Blogapolooza Cake. Its... by shortstreetcakes | Aug 29, 2008 | Bibliomancy, Featured Cookbook
So, for my next installment of “Cookbook Reviews and Bibliomancy,” I want to introduce one of my favorites: Heart of the Home, by Ann Jackson. Relatively obscure and hard to find (I had to special order mine from Malaprops), this book was published in 1995... by shortstreetcakes | Aug 10, 2008 | Bibliomancy, Featured Cookbook
This is the first in an ongoing series of blog posts on My Life In Cake featuring my favorite cookbooks. These are my tried-and-true, all-time favorite, recipe-books-I-read-in-the-bathtub kind of books. They will be in no particular ranking, or order, chronologically...