TOP PICK: Great Spirits Baking Co. Chocolate Cake

As pre-teens, when one might have thought us too young to appreciate it, we were enamored of the rum cake made by an old Italian baker. The cake was fragrant and moist from the rum syrup in which it had been soaked. A favorite of our mother, it would be ordered for holidays and special…
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CONTEST: Great American Pie Show

How good is your best pie recipe? The First Annual “Great American Pie Show,” featuring weatherman and bon vivant Al Roker from NBC’s Today Show, will take place April 24-25 in the Branson (Missouri) Convention Center. If your recipe is the winner, you can finally get your piece of the pie, which includes a first…
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PRODUCT: Claire’s Squares

Bi-Rite’s specialty food store has a lovely chocolate section with many of our favorites, including Recchiuti, Michael Mischer, Vosges, Coco-luxe, Lillie Belle, and some specialty items we had never heard of but bought up to try. The most tempting looking, which we attempted to have for breakfast Saturday morning, are chocolatae shortbread and caramel squares,…
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