Bodega Bakes: Recipes for Sweets and Treats Inspired by My Corner Store (Paola Velez) *Signed* Robert Laffont Rubbing to spine ends and

Rubbing to spine ends and a bit to extremities

Claire shares recipes for icebox cakes

using creative methods and ingredient combinations to highlight the textures

high-quality chocolate beckoning from grocery shelves all over the country

Browning to fragile pages

Bodega Bakes: Recipes for Sweets and Treats Inspired by My Corner Store (Paola Velez) *Signed* Robert Laffont Rubbing to spine ends andSigned bookplate mounted inside! Growing up in the Bronx, Paola Velezs happy place was the bodega, a unique world full of color and flavor where the shelves were stocked with everything from M&Ms to Muenster cheese to majarete (Caribbean corn pudding)and, of course, its own cat (IYKYK). Before she was the James Beardnominated chef, Cherry Bombe cover girl, social media darling, and cofounder of the grassroots social action network, Bakers Against