Filled Baby Pumpkin

In December I was doing book signings in bookstores throughout the Netherlands. It was close to Christmas and people were lining up in remarkably long lines in order to personalize their cookbook gifts with my signature. I’m not telling you this to brag about myself, but rather about Ceder, a boy who was standing in line with his mother and his big brother. He had already sent me a postcard once and now he had traveled for an hour and stood in line for another hour just to shake my hand. On