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The Secret Ingredient: Monica Jerminario on Sweet Rice Flour

"I've had to explore ingredients in such a deep way that it feels like the ingredients guide things"

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Kate Ray
Jul 20, 2025
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I just finished the book The Body is a Doorway by Sophie Strand, whom I got to indirectly collaborate with for my cake project last month. It’s an incredible book (go get it!) and the refrain of the storytelling is the way she holds her chronic illness and turns it over and over in her mind, considering it from different vantage points and trying to fin…

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