Wooden spoons and cherries may be two odd kitchen pet peeves, but they were mine when I wrote my first cookbook, “The New Pastry Cook”, published by William Morrow in 1986. They still are. I had a marvelous editor, Narcisse Chamberlain. She was a seasoned professional who took a novice cookbook writer (me) and honed a book of, at the time, brand new ways of thinking about pastry. She taught me much but there were two things that became my pet peeves – wooden spoons and cherries. Continue reading