Author Amy Charlotte Kean drew Twitter’s attention to the pastry, writing: “I feel like this might be a bit much, even for East London.” At time of writing, her post had 29,000 likes ...

Expertise: baking, pastry, foodways, social justice. Experience: Lisa Donovan has been formative in developing, writing, and establishing a technique-driven, historically rich narrative of ...

I was writing about food in the South when Donovan’s pastry career was on the rise. I’d eat in the restaurants where she baked, plotting my dinner order in a way that I’d still have room for ...