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y love of baking started when I was in primary school. At first it was about the eating, and still is, but I’d volunteer to cook dessert for the dinner parties my cookbook, which was first published in the late ’70s. Back then I thought they were incredibly sophisticated. Maybe there was a little creative showing-off involved, but it was the rapturous applause and praise from our visitors that got me hooked! The emotional connection of baking for others was intensely addictive. The joy it generated for them and me was why I baked – and still is.

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