Ever since I opened Bryant Terry’s Vegan Soul Kitchen cookbook, which includes recipes as well as recommended soundtracks for cooking, I’ve been adding my own soundtracks to my baking. This past summer, I knocked out two pound cakes from the recipe taken from the Reynolds Wrap The Way Mama Cooked It contest […]
Humming Along
By admin On June 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Culture and Community, People, Recipes, Washington, DC
For weeks I’ve been talking about sharing an experience in making a Hummingbird Cake. For many seasoned cake bakers, this isn’t news, but apparently the Hummingbird cake is the youngest member of the southern cake tradition. Its first appearance is credited to Southern Living Magazine when they published a recipe by a Mrs. L.H. Wiggins […]
Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer and the official time when Eatonville Restaurant adds a coconut cake to the menu.
Wednesday, Decoyise “Dee” Brown came to the Eatonville kitchen for the test baking of her winning coconut cake recipe from the “Makes-Me-Wanna SHOUT!” Coconut Cake Challenge (a presentation of “Church Lady […]
“The Way Mama Cooked It” is one of my most reliable comfort food recipe books. It was published by Reynolds Kitchens in 1981 compiling the best savory and sweet recipes from African American home cooks who entered the Reynolds Wrap Kitchens recipe contest. There’s no story narrative included with the recipes or cooks’ bios. […]
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