Every time
I tell my mum I have baked something sweet, she says the same thing: be
careful. It's not really a surprise as this is my mum's response to many of the
things I tell her. On holiday? Be careful. Long drive in the car? Be careful.
Got a cold? Be careful. After years of the same spiel, I know the code behind
the much used phrase. In the case of baking she means: you'd better watch your
weight. Baking means eating, and who else but me and my man would be eating up all
this cake?
Looking at
the pictures of Leila Lindholm in her second baking book, One more slice,
I have a suspicion that her mum worries about other things. Leila looks like lately, she's been baking her cake and eating it, too. Dressed in floaty clothes and padding
on Birkenstocks, she's a down to earth version of the equally curvy Nigella
Lawson. An earth mother of sorts, and one that - according to the foreword - is
trying to bridge the gap between cultures and generations by baking goodies.
The recipes are international enough and range from Italian semifreddo to
American brownies and from French pain au levain to Russian blinis.
