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{Sonoma} A Trip Down the Wine Road

Oct 13 by Anita 4 Comments

A few months ago, I was invited with some other bloggers to go on a three day trip to Sonoma County by Wine Road. The Wine Road is an association of wineries in the Northern Sonoma county, near the Russian River, centered roughly around Healdsburg. Although I always love going up to wine country, I’ve […]...

Filed Under: California, San Francisco, Sweet Spots, Travel Tagged With: california, healdsburg, sonoma, travel, wine, wine road

Apples for Autumn: {Cookbook Review} More From Macrina

Sep 21 by Anita 10 Comments

Thank you to all of you for your well-wishes and e-mails. It means a great deal to me to know there’s so much support coming from all over the web. I go between excited and nervous, often within the space of minutes, and oftentimes simultaneously, so it’s definitely never dull here. I also didn’t mention […]...

Filed Under: Breads, Cookbooks, Recipes, Reviews Tagged With: apple, bakery, brioche, cookbook, macrina, review

1 + 1 =

Sep 10 by Anita 34 Comments

Things have slowed down here a bit here lately on the site. The reasons are myriad: summer vacation distractions, working on sated magazine issue #2, but really there’s one main reason I haven’t been able to show up as often as I like. I’ll let Snickers help me make the announcement:...

Filed Under: Cookies, Personal, Recipes Tagged With: baby, blitz puff, life, palmiers, pastry, raspberry

{Sweet San Francisco} {Palo Alto}: Chantal Guillon’s New Store

Aug 27 by Anita 7 Comments

While the macaron craze may have have subsided slightly in the blogosphere, they’re still popular here in the Bay Area – no self-respecting patisserie would be without a rainbow-hued selection of these little sweets. My choice for satisfying my macaron cravings is Chantal Guillon – a little shop tucked away in San Francisco that featured […]...

Filed Under: Reviews, San Francisco, Sweet Spots, Sweet Spots Tagged With: bakery, chantal guillon, macaron, palo alto, san francisco

A Sundae for Summer

Aug 13 by Anita 14 Comments

This post was meant to go up earlier last week, but disaster struck – we had a freezer malfunction at home and the ice cream I made all melted! Fortunately we were able to salvage most things, but it delayed photo-taking for a couple days. Not that melty ice cream can’t be just as delicious, […]...

Filed Under: Ice Cream, Recipes Tagged With: ice cream, lemon sherbet, milk tea

Olallieberries and Shortcake

Jul 23 by Anita 9 Comments

Olallieberry is just such a fun word to say. Their rarity and relatively short season also mean there are few chances to utter the word. So when it gets to around this time of year, Mike and I take great delight in saying to each other, “Do you think the olallieberries are in season yet?” […]...

Filed Under: Cakes, Fruit, Recipes, San Francisco, Sweet Spots, Sweet Spots Tagged With: olallieberries, shortcake, swanton berry farm

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Anita Chu, also known as pastrygirl, is a baker, writer, and photographer with a passion for pastry. She trained at Tante Marie's Cooking School and is the author of Field Guide to Cookies, Field Guide to Candy, and Lollipop Love. Anita lives in San Francisco with her husband, daughter, and dog Max. More about pastrygirl

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