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Heirloom Cocktail Recipe by Robyn Jasko

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...

Homesweet Homegrown Book Signing at Short Street Cakes!

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,...

Its time for another installment of: Featured Cookbooks and Bibliomancy!

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,...

“The Gift of Southern Cooking” Cookbook Review and Bibliomancy Part 3

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...

Cookbook Review and Bibliomancy Part II: Heart of the Home by Ann Jackson

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...

Cookbook Review and Bibliomancy Part I: The Joy of Cooking

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...

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225 Haywood Rd
East-West Asheville, NC


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