That Tim Mazurek had never made a mazurek made no sense at all. “The funny thing is, my name is obviously a dessert, and I never really investigated that. Every six months to a year, someone in the food world will write to me and say, you know your name is a pastry?” The beloved food writer of Lottie + Doof, known for his sensitive and thorough approach to recipes, Tim was raised in a Polish American family in Chicago. “We had our little bakery,” he says, “and it’s s
