I’ve resisted putting myself front and center of the Church Lady Cake Diaries. I always felt the work can speak for itself. But well intentioned friends suggested I step from behind the curtain in the age of internet, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Media is social. So I called Gemal Woods, a producer in Washington, DC […]
I have to say, when I put the first morsel of my homemade fruitcake in my mouth, I had nearly the same reaction as Anto Ego in the Disney animated feature Ratatouille.
Memories of Christmases past, family came to mind. I pulled out the Nat King Cole Christmas CD. It seemed to […]
Around this time, PBS would broadcast the television adaptation of Truman Capote’s short story A Christmas Memory. As I’m about to embark on my first fruitcake making venture, I can’t help but hear Geraldine Page’s voice “It’s fruitcake weather.” I’m measuring out my ingredients for this recipe passed on to me by Paddy Bowman which […]
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