Last year I attempted to make a recipe for Mini Pavlovas from Nigella Lawson’s cookbook, How to be a Domestic Goddess. It was the first time I had ever made pavlovas and they turned out terribly. I had no idea if it was my inexperience, the small electric oven I used, or if the recipe [...]

Beyond the classic apple pie, nothing says “America” like chocolate chips and peanut butter. The chocolate chip cookie was invented in the 1930s by a woman named Ruth Wakefield who ran the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts (Nestle later bought the rights to the recipe). Peanut butter, usually passed up by the rest of the [...]