num_pages: 416
description: There are many reasons to to feed; to create; to impress; to nourish; to define ourselves; and sometimes it has to be said to perfect. But often we bake to fill a hunger that would be better filled by a simple gesture from a dear one. We bake to love and be loved.In 1966 Kathleen Eaden cookbook writer and wife of a supermarket magnate published The Art of Baking  her guide to nurturing a family by creating the most exquisite pastries biscuits and cakes. Now five amateur bakers are competing to become the New Mrs. Eaden. There's Jenny facing an empty nest now that her family has flown; Claire who has sacrificed her dreams for her daughter; Mike trying to parent his two kids after his wife's death; Vicki who has dropped everything to be at home with her baby boy; and Karen perfect Karen who knows what it's like to have nothing and is determined her facade shouldn't slip. As unlikely alliances are forged and secrets rise to the surface making the choicest pastry seems the least of the contestants' problems. For they will learn--as Mrs. Eaden did before them--that while perfection is possible in the kitchen it's very much harder in life in Sarah Vaughan's The Art of Baking Blind.
language: English
title: The Art of Baking Blind
publisher: St. Martin's Press