Pecan pie, in coffee cups
The recipe as Mavis says it, and as Yvette measured it.
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Why the dough rests
A short story about patience and a very slow Sunday.
Thibodeaux Table · a free letter on Sundays
One recipe, one story and one very old oven
A short letter from Mavis and Yvette Thibodeaux, a mother and daughter baking in Lafayette, Louisiana: one recipe, the story behind it and a photograph from the kitchen.
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