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How Brown Butter Became My Secret Ingredient

I was standing in the restaurant kitchen, staring at my third failed batch of the day. The whoopie pies looked perfect—beautiful brown butter and fig cakes sandwiching a rich, fragrant filling dotted with pieces of fig. But something wasn’t right. The filling was too loose, separating from the cakes. Maine natives were going to eat […]

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My Mother’s Shortbread Cookies: A Legacy of Love

My Mother’s Shortbread Cookies: A Legacy of Love My mother came from a little fishing village in Nova Scotia, Canada—one of many children in a family where her father cooked on fishing boats and her mother stretched every resource to feed them all. She had to leave school in eighth grade to help support the […]