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Baking & the Meaning of Life

by Helen Goh · Abrams

No. 3 on the New Cookbooks chart, October 2026On 8 best-of listsIn Chef's daily Nov 24

A psychologist and Ottolenghi baker on why we bake, with cakes worth the reason.

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