We don’t need to eat as much sugar as we do. Many crave less-sweet treats, or to taste the deep flavors of fruit, nuts, and spices. These really shine through when baking with less sugar. Some need to lower sugar intake for health benefits, and others are baking for their children, who should be discouraged from worshipping sugar. For all of us who love to bake and sweeten our days with special treats, here’s Baking with Less Sugar.
Beloved author Joanne Chang, renowned for her beautiful pastries and desserts at Flour Bakery + Cafés in the Boston area, and creator of amazing baking recipes in Flour and Flour, Too, has reformulated Flour favorites and developed new recipes to present more than 60 recipes with much less or zero refined white sugar. Instead, you’ll find the famous Flour banana bread made with only six tablespoons of refined sugar, gooey Honey Cashew Morning Buns, Keith’s Super-Snappy Gingersnaps that derive some of their spicy snap from the bite of molasses, and a gorgeous carrot layer cake sweetened with apple juice. An entire chapter is devoted to the unadulterated pleasure of chocolate, most intense when not tempered by the addition of sugar. Cookies, muffins, doughnuts, cupcakes, creamy desserts such as crème caramel and ice cream—all of your favorite sweets are here, and all made by Baking with Less Sugar.
Joanne Chang is the co-owner and pastry chef at Flour Bakery + Café, with locations in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, and co-owner of Myers + Chang.
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AUTHOR, CASH NICKERSON - HOW TO “GET TO NEXT” IN TODAY’S RAPIDLY CHANGING MARKETPLACE
Talk about a great gift for a college graduate… What can you learn from a monk while flying at 37,000 feet? What can a six-month old teach you about moving and maneuvering through the world? And why should you attend summer camp when you’re in your 50s? Cash Nickerson has all the answers in Getting to Next: Lessons to Help Take Your Career to the Next Level. An observer, seeker, and doer, Cash has traveled the world and brings to his writing a mix of global insight, practical ideas, and a deep understanding of what it takes to get to next. The essay format offers readers a feeling of conversation and allows for the book to be read in doses. Nickerson’s Nuggets of Wisdom will allow you to enhance your employability, step up your game at your current job, and seek a better work-life balance.
ESSAYS IN THE BOOK ARE DESIGNED AROUND 4 KEY TOPICS:
• Career Beginnings – focused on the early stages of anyone’s career
• For Leaders & Future Leaders – helpful to those who aspire to lead and those who are already there
• Trends – covering social media and demographic tendencies that can encourage people to think about their career differently
• Reflections – essays Nickerson wrote after a significant life event
BIO FOR CASH NICKERSON Author and Business Expert
Cash Nickerson is President and CFO of PDS Tech, Inc., a position he has held for 10 years. With over $440 million in annual sales, PDS is the fourth largest engineering and IT staffing firm in the United States. He has held a variety of legal and executive positions in his 25 year plus career including serving as an attorney and marketing executive for Union Pacific Railroad, an associate and then partner at Jenner & Block, one of Chicago’s five largest law firms and chairman and CEO of an internet company he took public through a reverse merger. Mr. Nickerson holds a JD and MBA from Washington University in St. Louis where he was an editor of the law review and a recipient of the US Steel Scholarship. Mr. Nickerson is Chairman of the Dallas Regional Cabinet for Washington University in St. Louis. He is a member of the National Council of the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law and International Council of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute. Mr. Nickerson serves on the Equifax Workforce Solutions Client Advisory Board.
Mr. Nickerson is licensed to practice law in California, Nevada, Illinois, Nebraska and Texas and is a member of the American, Los Angeles and Dallas Bar Associations. He received the Global Philanthropy Award from Washington University for his support of the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative. He is an avid martial artist, ranked as a third degree black belt in Kenpo Karate, and he is a Russian Martial Arts instructor. Mr. Nickerson is the author of the recently released, critically acclaimed book on employment, “StagNation, Understanding the New Normal in Employment.”
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