Kelly Jacques and Samantha Weiss established Ayu Bakehouse in 2022 in New Orleans. They already have a reputation for king cake, competing with bakeries that have been baking king cakes the entire lives of their owners. And this is in a town that takes its king cake seriously.

They have built a business with sustainability of all types at its core. They care about the environment, their customers, their employees, and their own holistic health, while operating a sustainable business.

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Read about their king cake here.

King Cake at Ayu Bakhouse

Fava beans in the Ayu Bakehouse king cake

Ayu Bakehouse801 Frenchmen St., New Orleans, LA (504) 302-7985

In 2001 Paula Johnson, Director of the American Food History Project at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, and colleagues traveled to Cambridge, MA to visit Julia Child as she was planning to relocate to California. She oversaw the installation of the Julia Child kitchen at the Smithsonian. And what began as a temporary exhibit has survived a move within the museum and continues to be a popular exhibit.

The exhibit is so popular that it has its own Fact Sheet on the Smithsonian website.

Paula has written a book about the entire experience with wonderful anecdotes about the journey to where the exhibit/kitchen is today.

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Sarah Ahn has presented us with a wonderful insight into her mother’s kitchen. It happens to be a Korean kitchen with exciting dishes and techniques that can be duplicated in your home kitchen. I learned all about new flavors and techniques. I am going back to recipes a second and third time with excitement. And I am exploring websites where I can find appropriate products. What a wonderful way to learn about a culture. And I am inspired to add new flavors to my own table.

You probably know Sarah from America’s Test Kitchen. She shares a lot with us in this book, so we need to honor that work. Listen. It’s on Tip of the Tongue.