Friday, March 25, 2011

The Start

   On a damp February evening I stopped by my neighborhood library to bring back a late movie.  Exhausted, cold and in no mood to browse, I approached the counter to make my return.  Alone on that counter sat a large and beautiful, possibly life-changing book: Chocolate Cake, 150 Recipes from the Simple to the Sublime by Michelle Urvater
   "150 chocolate cakes," I marvelled. 
   "Please, take it," responded  our librarian.  "The shelf where it goes is full, and we really have no place for it." 
   How could I not?
   What's more fun than chocolate cake, and who needed fun more than I, here almost at the end of a particularly dark winter? I checked out the book, took it  home and began to plan.      
  

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