I’m part of a potluck group called Supperfly, hosted each month at a different home with a theme decided by the host. For some reason, I decided to try Smith Island Cake for a recent Supperfly where the theme was to make something that’s your favorite color. I’m not exactly sure what my favorite color is but chocolate is one of Adam and my favorite foods so it seemed close enough to the theme.
That same week, a recipe for Smith Island Cake, apparently the “Official Cake of the State of …

I was introduced to the Italian plum over Rosh Hashanah in September when the lovely Marcia F. served a delicious Italian Plum Cake for dessert.
According to the kitchn, Italian Prune Plums are small, dense, egg-shaped fruit with blue or purple skin. These are the plums that are made into prunes but are also great for baking.
They are a seasonal fruit, available in stores during August and September. The week after I tasted Marcia’s cake, I bought a couple pounds of them to make my own.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get …

As the weather inches towards winter, I’ve started thinking more about soup. There are few things more comforting or evocative than soup. After all, one of the most infamous artists of the 20th Century, Andy Warhol, was obsessed with the stuff.

As M. F. K. Fisher author of our recent book club selection said, “It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it.”
Fisher features a recipe for Tomato Soup Cake in her book “How to Cook a Wolf,” published …