Tag: Wicked

• Baking for Bookworms: Saffron Cream from Gregory Maguire’s Wicked

  January 2, 2016

  Baking for Bookworms

  baking for bookworms, dessert, Gregory Maguire, Saffron Cream, whipped cream, Wicked, Wizard of Oz

  There’s not much food mentioned in the Wicked series. Elphaba has way more important things to do than cook. Or even eat. But there are a few foods that manage to convey both a very Oz-like sense of the exotic as well as a dark of mysterious quality–something decadent but not quite right. Saffron cream is mentioned…