I’m a pastry chef - but I don’t work in restaurants anymore, so you can just call me giver of dessert happiness. I’m also a freelance writer, a collector of pressed pennies and a serial eBayer. We built a new old English Tudor house here in Lawrence, Kansas, the coolest college town in America, and I started the blog to talk house, but quickly learned people would rather stare at food - who wouldn’t?
If you were to visit, I’d bake chocolate ginger scones and serve you green tea. We’d take my dopey black lab Cleo for a walk downtown and an iced americano - for me, not the dog. You’d hear me gripe at my preteen daughter, gripe equals love, and trade sentimental barbs with my brilliant and quieter-than-me lawyering husband.
Bad habits include asking inappropriate questions, habitually checking e-mail and snacking on butter. On the plus side I make true deep dish pizza, I kiss my dog, I remember birthdays and can carve a turkey.
A Chicago native living in Kansas, I love the Midwest and its piled-plate glory. I’ve been a chef, daughter, mother, writer, entrepreneur and friend, but what I’m best suited for is just plain handing out delicious things. And repeating all the stories that go with them.
contact me: marilyn.naron@gmail.com
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