Heirloom Baking with the Brass Sisters More than 100 Years of Recipes Discovered and Collected by the Queens of Comfort Food?

by Brass, Marilynn; Brass, Sheila; Ryan, Andy

• ISBN13: 9781579128814
• ISBN10: 1579128815
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-07
• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal

Summary

Since the publication of Heirloom Baking, Marilynn and Sheila Brass, the inimitable sisters from Cambridge, Massachusetts, have become a pair of celebrities. These two self-proclaimed '¬Sroundish women in their sixties'¬ have spent decades collecting heirloom recipes passed down through the generations. In Heirloom Baking they have gathered together more than a century'¬"s worth of America'¬"s favorite desserts and baked goods and lovingly updated them for the modern kitchen.

Author Biography

Marilynn Brass and Sheila Brass are home cooks with more than 119 years of experience between them. They have appeared in their own television cooking specials including The Brass Sisters Holiday on the Cooking Channel and The Brass Sisters: Queens of Comfort Food on WGBH, the PBS affiliate in Boston. They have also been guests on the Food Network's Bobby Flay's Throwdown and on PBS's Simply Ming, hosted by Tsai Ming. They have also made appearances on Antiques Roadshow FYI. Heirloom Baking was nominated for the James Beard Foundation Award in the category of "Baking and Dessert." They are the authors of Heirloom Cooking with the Brass Sisters, also published by Black Dog & Leventhal.