Bodega Bakes: Recipes for Sweets and Treats Inspired by My Corner Store John DeMers from early Creole cuisine and

from early Creole cuisine and Cajun cooking to the more recent influences of German

and Southern Living

This really is the book of sandwiches

not powders or meat substitutes--from the James Beard Award-winning chef and author of Afro-Vegan

Aviva Wittenberg learned to cook at her mother's side and honed her skills in the kitchen cooking for her family

Bodega Bakes: Recipes for Sweets and Treats Inspired by My Corner Store John DeMers from early Creole cuisine andAuthor: Paola Velez A baking book bursting with joy that will have you hightailing it to the oven and planning a trip to your local corner store. Growing up in the Bronx, Paola Velez's happy place was the bodega, a unique world full of color and flavor where the shelves were stocked with everything from M&M's to Muenster cheese to majarete (Caribbean corn pudding) and, of course, its own cat (IYKYK). Before she was the James Beard nominated chef,