Acknowledgments

They say it takes a village to raise a child; the same could be said for a cookbook! I would like to thank my editor at Chronicle Books, Bill LeBlond, for hearing me out and seeing the potential in this project, and Sarah Billingsley for her always helpful and gracious guidance. Many thanks also to my grandmother Helen Zalubowski, for giving me her decades-old rolling pin and showing me how to use it, and to Chef Ian Titterton for sharing his vast baking knowledge with me. I also owe heaps of gratitude to my husband, Gregor Torrence, for discussing crackers and dips in depth for many, many hours. If patience is a virtue, he is a saint.