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Let It Be Sunday!

March 19, 2017 by Joy the Baker 27 Comments

Hello my friends!  

Please accept this shorter offering of Sunday reads this week.  Please also accept my relentless requests that you cook from my new cookbook Over Easy and join me out in the world for cooking demos and book signings in the next few weeks.  Tomorrow (that’s MONDAY March 20th!!) I’ll be chatting with Deb from Smitten Kitchen at Rizzoli Bookstore.  I hope you’ll join us because if you don’t, Deb and I will have to drink all the wine spritzers ourselves sitting atop a stack of my cookbook.  This wouldn’t be the worst, but it’s just not the way we want things to go down.  

In my suitcase for the next few weeks is everything from a puffy jacket to a black bikini.  I’m running the spectrum, having watched several hours of packing videos on YouTube.  Are you on this packing cube bandwagon?  Do you know how many t-shirts you can fit in those things?  The answer is: A LOT.  The follow-up question though:  how many t-shirts does one reeaallllyyy need? (Probably not that many) 

Besides brunch, new cookbooks, travel adventures and mixed anxiety and excitement… here’s what else is on my mind:

•  This is important for us.  Love After Love: Derek Walcott’s Poetic Ode To Being At Home In Ourselves. AMEN, this is really beautiful. 

•  Here are the two long-reads I’m taking in this weekend:  how one man survived in the wilderness for 27 years (me without Instagram for 8 hours?) and the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death (very similar to my cat’s plan for my long travel absence?)

•  Finally, honesty about email:  Sorry for the delayed response.  Responses include… I didn’t know, I was busy, I didn’t feel like it, and I just can’t with you right now/ever. 

•  Drake just gave us MORE LIFE. 

•  Edible Manhattan wrote an article on Joy the Baker’s Five Essential Cookbooks.  That’s me.  I’m Joy the Baker. I won’t refer to myself in the third person often. Not to worry. 

•  Reaching back to the good ol days:  French Onion Soup Sandwiches.  

•  Sign me right on up:  Roasted Rhubarb Scone Sandwiches with Vanilla Bean Glaze.

•  “If you really love someone, you want to know what they ate for lunch and dinner without you.”  from Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life.  

Much more soon.  I’ll see you out there in the world!

xo Joy

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  1. Abbi

    March 20, 2017 at 10:55 am

    Well I just requested “Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life” from the library. I can’t wait to read it/cry my eyes out. What beautiful words.

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  2. myimpkitchen

    March 20, 2017 at 9:07 am

    P.S. Those French Onion Soup Sandwiches are a family favorite here! So darn good!

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  3. myimpkitchen

    March 20, 2017 at 9:05 am

    So excited to see your book! Just got the Amazon notice that it shipped today! YAY!!! Have a wild, crazy and most wonderful time!

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  4. Amber

    March 20, 2017 at 7:04 am

    Have fun! and wish I could sneak away from dissertation writing to meet up- but I’ll have to wait until next time. :( Also, where is that gray skirt (I think?) with the white scallops from??

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  5. Victoria Sponge Pease Pudding

    March 20, 2017 at 4:55 am

    Literally everyone I’ve spoken to the past few days has started the conversation with “did you see that piece in the Guardian about the Queen?” It’s completely mind boggling how much planning goes into these things and as a media-type person in the UK, fascinating and slightly terrifying when the time does come!

    https://victoriaspongepeasepudding.com/

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    • sylvia mitchell

      March 20, 2017 at 1:13 pm

      holy cow… I thought I wonder if the queen has seen this? I’m thinking yikes.. everyone planning my death.. ugh ugh.. I think the guardian had a lot of nerve,, but I suppose the news people do not consider how the queen might feel… sad.

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  6. Rebeca

    March 19, 2017 at 11:12 am

    I’m the worst at packing, probably because I leave it to the very last second. Oops. Wish I could be on that side of the Atlantic for your book signing. I mean, you and Deb together?! Too amazing.
    I was happy to see Tender is on your list of essentials. I love it so much sometimes I read random pages.
    Safe travels and have fun!

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  7. Thomas D

    March 19, 2017 at 10:37 am

    I’ll be at your book signing in NYC, and I hope you would allow a photo. Will Deb have a book there also?

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  8. Sheila

    March 19, 2017 at 9:47 am

    Fascinating piece on Queen Elizabeth. I’m a total closet royal watcher. Good stuff! Also, just wanted to say I read the article about you on Nola.com. Congratulations all around!

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    • joythebaker

      March 19, 2017 at 10:35 am

      Oh thank you so much Sheila!

      Reply
  9. Kate

    March 19, 2017 at 9:24 am

    The black embroidered dress you packed is gorgeous. Would you mind telling where it’s from?

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    • joythebaker

      March 19, 2017 at 10:39 am

      I think it’s a French Connection dress!

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  10. lmedvec

    March 19, 2017 at 9:05 am

    Can’t wait to try Over Easy! Love your five essential cookbooks – there a few I want to add to my collection. Safe travels.

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  11. tessa.z

    March 19, 2017 at 8:25 am

    You + Deb = my two favorite food people! Together in one place! Can you bring her with you to Chicago? :) While you’re here next weekend, I highly, highly recommend that you check out Baker Miller. It’s my fav neighborhood spot (no brunch lines!) and an absolutely lovely place. I mean, they mill their own flour, how cool is that? Can’t wait to meet you on Saturday!

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    • joythebaker

      March 19, 2017 at 10:40 am

      Thank you so much for the recommendation Tessa! That sounds right up my alley! See you next Saturday! It looks like it’s going to rain. Bummer…

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  12. emmycastlen

    March 19, 2017 at 8:20 am

    Looking forward to baking and cooking more of your amazing recipes from the new book! I love the black dress in the photo above. Where is it from?

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    • joythebaker

      March 19, 2017 at 10:39 am

      I hope you love the book as much as I do Emmy! I think that dress is from French Connection.

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  13. Teresa Bergan

    March 19, 2017 at 7:44 am

    Love your posts. Your books. Your wonderful love and outlook on life. Ordered your book. Thank you. Teresa Bergan

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    • joythebaker

      March 19, 2017 at 10:42 am

      Thank YOU!

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  14. paulabalog

    March 19, 2017 at 7:07 am

    Your new cookbook just arrived this week in the mail and I cannot wait to cook from it! The pictures are fantastic and I already have post its in there to mark the recipes I want to try. Currently I have my eye on the cornbread waffles and the chocolate hazelnut coffee cake.

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    • joythebaker

      March 19, 2017 at 10:41 am

      You have it!? Fantastic!

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  15. Chocolatebaker

    March 19, 2017 at 6:56 am

    Have fun when I pack I pack for a year never no what I want to wear.drives my kids crazy. But I am happy safe trip

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    • joythebaker

      March 19, 2017 at 10:41 am

      This game me a good chuckle.

      Reply
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