Life Is What You Bake It

<b>ONE OF THE TEN BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: <i>Boston Globe</i> &#149; ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: <i>Food Network</i> <i>The Washington Post</i> <i>Time Out</i> <i>Glamour Taste of Home Southern Living</i> <i>Library Journal</i><br><br>&#147;As much about a collection of recipes that makes your mouth water and tugs at your heart with food memories as it is about the chronicles and life lessons of a true comeback kid.&#148;&#151;Carla Hall</b><br><br>Popular baking personality and lawyer turned baker Vallery Lomas debuts&#160;her first baking book&#160;celebrating more than&#160;100 recipes for everything from Apple Cider Fritters to Lemon-Honey Madeleines and Crawfish Hand Pies to her Grandma&#146;s Million Dollar Cake. Vallery shares heirloom family recipes from her native Louisiana time spent in Paris <i>The Great American Baking Show</i> (which she famously won!) and of course sweets and breads inspired by her adopted hometown New York City. Vallery&#146;s &#147;when life gives you lemons make lemon curd&#148; philosophy will empower legions of bakers and fans to find their inner warrior and bake their best life.<br><br><b>&#147;<i>Life Is What You Bake It</i> is not only a collection of recipes but also an empowering book that shows us there&#146;s often more possible than we can even imagine.&#148;&#151;Julia Turshen bestselling author of <i>Simply Julia</i> host of <i>Keep Calm and Cook On</i> podcast and founder of Equity at the Table<br><br></b>