Confections of a Closet Master Baker: A Memoir
Gesine Bullock-Prado, . . Broadway, $24 (226pp) ISBN 978-0-7679-3268-4
In this terrifically lively account chockfull of elegant, Old World recipes, Bullock-Prado, a former Hollywood film developer and sister to actress Sandra Bullock, recounts the joys and heartbreaks of running her own patisserie in Montpelier, Vt. Having fled the “soul-sucking” routine in Los Angeles with her husband, Ray, for the simpler pleasures of a small town near the Green Mountains, the author opened her own bake shop, Gesine Confectionary, in 2004, mostly on the fame of the macaroons she refashioned from her German mother's favorite almond treat,
Reviewed on: 07/13/2009
Genre: Nonfiction
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