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Mother and daughter

Who is in the kitchen

One of us measures with a coffee cup. The other weighs it and writes it down.

  • Portrait of Mavis in a chambray apron with flour on her cheek

    the one who bakes

    Mavis Thibodeaux

    Mavis has baked from memory for fifty years and measures with a coffee cup.

  • Portrait of Yvette in a mustard apron

    the one who writes it down

    Yvette Thibodeaux-Marsh

    Yvette weighs everything her mother pours and turns it into a recipe.

Mavis and Yvette rolling pie dough together at dawn

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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  • Kindred Mag
  • Northbound
  • Weekend Post

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