Left my heart in San Francisco...

Oh, California! I'm back again, to the sunshine and beautiful white light in the morning, bearing cake pans and spelt flour, cornstarch-free powdered sugar and a microplane grater. It's lovely to be here again, and now that my sister Amy and her family (my 2 nieces and 1 nephew, plus my super-nice bro-in-law) are probably moving from Connecticut to Minneapolis this spring, well, that's one less thing to keep me in NYC. What I'm going to do in CA: go to Delfina with Bucky, take the Larkspur Ferry with Paige, hang out and eat organic clementines with Jen, read stories to Charlotte and Sebastian (my niece and nephew by friendship, since I've known them both since they were born), and see Shifra and Stephen get married! And make their little cake, of course--the whole reason I'm here. It was none too hard to leave the half-melted slush and mittens behind me. More on the cake adventures to follow...