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Liepman Literary Agency
Marc Koralnik
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THE JOYS OF BAKING

Samantha Seneviratne

Recipes and Stories for a Sweet Life by Samantha Seneviratne

The new book from the James Beard Award-nominated author/blogger Samantha Seneviratne's is a personal, writing-driven, narrative-filled, cookbook that explores the powerful lure of baking in all the emotional seasons of our lives, through challenges and triumphs alike.
Baking One's Way Through a Sweet Life, with Great Recipes

Cooking is a necessity-everyone needs to eat-but baking is different. No one needs a chocolaty cake or a delectable sweet to survive.That is, until that moment when a chocolate cake is exactly what you need to survive.

Author Samantha Seneviratne believes that every baking project begins with a spark-a desire, a craving, a memory, or a feeling-and through baking that spark is made real. Inspired by the gumption and charm of the classic, bestselling cookbook The Joy of Cooking, this cookbook focuses on the joys that make up everyday life and 75 ways to bake yourself back up when you feel like you've hit the bottom. Each chapter represents one of five emotions and provides recipes paired with touching, humorous, and thoughtful essays and beautiful photos throughout.
• Chocolate Cardamom Swirl Babka
• Apricot Frangipange Phyllo Tart
• Nectarine Galette with Sour Cherry Jam
• Strawberry Rhubarb Cake with Bay and Orange
• Coffee Crème Bundt Cake

For all the happy and joyous moments, for every stage of love, lovesickness, and everything in between, when you need a moment of comfort and solace, there's always dessert.

About the author
Samantha Seneviratne is a New York–based food writer, recipe developer, and food stylist. She is a graduate of the International Culinary Center and has worked as a food editor in the test kitchens of Good Housekeeping, Fine Cooking, and Martha Stewart's Everyday Food. She blogs about dessert at Love, Cake (Lovecommacake.com). Her debut cookbook about spice-centric baking, The New Sugar and Spice, (Ten Speed Press) was a 2016 James Beard Award finalist and chosen as one of the outstanding Cookbooks of the Year 2015 by the Associated Press.
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Published by Running Press