On the eve of her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the slice. All at once her cheerful, can-do mother tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes perilous. […]
Read MoreIt’s four weeks ago today that I created this blog, and the response I’ve gotten in those weeks is quite overwhelming. I didn’t think anyone would read that first post (on chocolate brownies) but it got 11 likes, and people already started following me after that one post. Now I’ve got 35 followers and over […]
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This weekend I decided I wanted to make some cookies. However, it wasn’t until I was already busy making them that I realised I’m a bit of a cookie rookie. I love to bake and am getting quite good at it (if I do say so myself) but for some reason I don’t tend to […]
Read MoreIn a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key… The key belonged to his father, he’s sure of that. But which of New York’s 162 million locks does it open? So begins a quest that takes Oskar — inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective […]
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About five weeks ago I had my 20th birthday, and yesterday I received a belated gift from my friend Jitske (yes, we are both aware of the fact her name looks like “jetski” (and have joked about many a time) — it’s a Dutch name). She gave me the cutest little baking set, which you […]
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This weekend I had a friend coming over for lunch, so I wanted to bake something nice, but I didn’t feel like going all out with ingredients. In fact, I didn’t want to leave my warm and cosy home to go to the supermarket, so it had to be done with stuff I already had […]
Read More‘All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time…’ On his eighty-third birthday, Eddie, a lonely war veteran, dies in a tragic accident trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. With his final breath, he feels two small hands in his – and then nothing. He awakens in […]
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The other day I was having lunch with my mother at La Place, which is a chain of buffet type restaurants in the Netherlands. Their food is usually pretty good — albeit a bit too expensive for a poor little student like yours truly — but La Place doesn’t exactly scream “passion for food”. Anyway, […]
Read MoreDespite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten. First published: 2012
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The brownie – arguably the most loved baked goodie around. I, at least, have encountered few people who don’t like this chocolate-y piece of heaven. There is this one friend of mine who said she didn’t like them — until she tasted my brownies, that is… So here’s the recipe for my favourite sweet treat: the […]
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Books Baking and Blogging 