“The one email I read slowly on a Sunday morning, with coffee and whatever is left of the biscuits.”
Mother and daughter
Who is in the kitchen
One of us measures with a coffee cup. The other weighs it and writes it down.

the one who bakes
Mavis Thibodeaux
Mavis has baked from memory for fifty years and measures with a coffee cup.

the one who writes it down
Yvette Thibodeaux-Marsh
Yvette weighs everything her mother pours and turns it into a recipe.

Hello, we're Mavis and Yvette
We are Mavis and Yvette, mother and daughter, baking in the same Lafayette kitchen where Mavis learned from her own mother. Mavis cooks by feel and by coffee cup. Yvette weighs everything and writes it down.
Every week we send one recipe, the story behind it and a photograph from the kitchen, so the measurements stay in the family and in your inbox.
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