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About Helen
Helen was my mom. She loved to cook and she loved to collect cookbooks. She passed both her loves on to me at an early age. I remember making my first full dinner, soup to nuts, when I was 9 years old. Mom didn't help one bit, until it was time to do the dishes and I was too exhausted to lift another finger. To this day I still seem to run out of gas when it's time to clean up.
I grew up learning about and tasting foods from different countries. Mom would pick up a new cookbook on German or French cuisine and decide to throw a dinner party so she could try out all new and exciting recipes. We took Chinese cooking classes together, learned how to make Viennese pastry, and once put on a Hawaiian Luau potluck supper for 200; we spent weeks making paper leis and pineapple centerpieces.
I've come a long way from the EZ Bake Oven cakes of my childhood, thanks mostly to mom. These recipes come from her personal collection, many of them hand written, and some taken from newspaper chat columns in the 50's and 60's, but all of them loved by her family and friends. I think you'll like them too.
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