Welcome to the fresh and springy April 2018 issue of Betterbaking.com! This newsletter should be reach you just after the spring holidays of Passover and Easter, the reason being I knew most of you would be preoccupied in one way of another with the festive meals at the beginning of April. So I decided to […]
A Note From Marcy February 2019
Dear Bakers and Friends, I’m delighted to welcome you back to my kitchen where I’ve been in a babka bake-a-thon, testing and refining this wonderful pastry until it reached ‘definitive’ status. Just what is a babka, you may well ask? It’s a sweet, yeasted coffee cake in the East European Jewish tradition. Babka’s usually come in chocolate […]
A Note from Marcy February 2019
Dear Bakers and Friends, Welcome to the February 2019 Issue of Betterbaking.com! I’m delighted to welcome you back to my kitchen where I’ve been in a babka dervish, testing and refining this wonderful pastry until it reached ‘definitive’ status. Just what is a babka, you may well ask? It’s a sweet, yeasted coffee cake in the East […]
A Note from Marcy January 2018
Happy New Year Fellow Bakers and Friends, The weather outside is frightful! With temperatures (at least in Montreal and on Mars), hovering at -20 Celsius (that minus five on a Fahrenheit thermometer), Betterbaking.com is the place to be. Hot biscuits, warm bread, simmering soup, chewy, oven-fresh cookies and flaky pies or whatever else you […]
A Note from Marcy July 2018
Dear Bakers and Friends, Welcome to the July 2018 issue of Betterbaking.com! I have a habit that gets triggered each time I find a new passion, whether it be hobby or work related. My habit is called gathering. Depending on the endeavour, I gather research materials, tools and equipment as if I’m writing a Ph.D. […]
A Note from Marcy November 2018
Dear Fellow Bakers and Friends, Welcome to the November 2018 Issue of Betterbaking.com! For a Canadian who hosts (primarily) American readers, I’m having my annual editorial déjà vu. Didn’t I just chat up pumpkins and harvest last month? I thought so! But that was Canadian Thanksgiving. Frankly, one could do worse than a Thanksgiving rematch […]
A Note from Marcy October 2018
Dear Bakers and Friends, Welcome to the October 2018 Issue of Betterbaking.com! If September was a balmy goodbye to summer, then October offers the unmistakable vibe of a new and cozy season that has the word bake written all over it! October is indelibly harvest time, fragrant with the perfume of Demeter, the grainy goddess […]
A Note from Marcy September 2018
Dear Bakers and Friends, Ah, September 1st – the bittersweet day of summer’s end and fall’s promise! The air might feel like July but it definitely smells like September and a heat wave would do little to stop the leaves from their first tumble. Labour Day is that twilight holiday, linking what was with what’s […]
A Note from Marcy, February 2019
Welcome to the February 2019 Issue of Betterbaking.com! I’m delighted to welcome you back to my kitchen where I’ve been in a babka bake-a-thon, testing and refining this wonderful pastry until it reached ‘definitive’ status. Just what is a babka, you may well ask? It’s a sweet, yeasted coffee cake in the East European Jewish tradition. Babka’s […]
A Note from Marcy, January 2019
Dear Fellow Bakers and Friends, Welcome to the regular January 2019 issues of Betterbaking.com. I hope you’ve all had a wonderful holiday and are easing into January with a sense of serenity, optimism and an appetite for a brand new year of baking adventures. I thought about all the things I could say in this […]