Join me this Friday for the live Facebook launch party of my new book, High Tea! Recipe demos, readings from the book, chat, aaaaaand I'm giving away three signed copies to three lucky people! THIS IS AN ALLERGY AND SENSITIVITY-FRIENDLY EVENT -- Free of all big 8 allergens + sesame + yeast, mushrooms, and ag mold.

Do you know where your baking powder comes from? In my new book, High Tea, I talk a little bit about the story of Alfred Bird and his wife Elizabeth, who, in 1848 was diagnosed with the same food allergies that I have to eggs and yeast. Alfred, a chemist, invented two products for Mrs. Bird that went on to be cornerstones in everyone's kitchen today, Bird's Custard and baking powder. Without the severe allergies of Mrs. Bird modern baking would not be the same!