This past week, I hosted a four-day, four-course cooking class for ten girls from a local non-profit serving the area's underprivileged girls. The girls each had a story laced with one tragedy after another, but there were two girls- Vicky and Jan - whose stories made me cringe and cry. The first day the director…
Gretchen keeps butter in a dish on her kitchen counter. The butter softens to the temperature of the room and becomes easy to spread over her homemade bread, cheddar biscuit, savory scones, or any other wonderful baked goods she creates. The first time she brought me freshly baked White Chocolate Chip and Cranberry Scones was…