Tag: pudding

• Baking for Bookworms: Zabaglione from Renata Adler’s Speedboat

  September 25, 2015

  Baking for Bookworms

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  There’s not a whole lot of food mentioned by name in Adler’s book (review to come!), but the zabaglione was both intriguing and simple, so I decided to give it a try. It’s interesting that food isn’t mentioned specifically in the “novel” because everything else is remarked upon in great detail. But Jen, the protagonist,…

• Baking for Bookworms: Rice Pudding from Neil Gaiman’s Stardust

  November 22, 2014

  Baking for Bookworms

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  It may come as a surprise to people that I’ve never had rice pudding. I’m not really sure why except that no one in my family ever made it and my resistance to anything that seemed like tapioca has prevented me from trying it. But I’m 22. I’ve grown as a person. And while you…