The Craft of Baking - Cakes, Cookies, and Other Sweets with Ideas for Inventing Your Own

125 recipes for delectable baked goods from the Hamptons’ most beloved baker

Kathleen King has been famous for her chocolate chip cookies since she was a young girl--in fact, they were such a hit that selling them put her through college. Now, in Tate's Bake Shop Cookbook, she shares 100 new recipes.

Some of the recipes you’ll want to make again and again include:

--Blueberry muffins
--Ginger scones
--Sour cream pound cake
--Zvi’s cinnamon swirl bread
--Old-fashioned soft sugar cookies
--Double peanut chocolate cookies
--Beach brownies
--Peach pie
--Apple cranberry crisp
--Carrot cake
--Chocolate chip cake

There’s even a section with recipes for energy bars, granola, and other healthy treats that Kathleen—an avid outdoorswoman—developed for biking and hiking trips.

Welcome to a world of cutthroat competition populated by fearless athletes, wealthy sponsors, and beautiful starlets and set against the glorious Cotswold countryside and the playgrounds of the world. Within this arena we meet the brooding gypsy Jake Lovell, under whose magic hands the most difficult horse or woman becomes biddable, who is driven by his hatred of Rupert Campbell-Black, the handsome and supremely confident star of the show ring. They steal each other's horses and love each other's women as they push themselves and their mounts to impossible extremes, until their feud erupts, with devastating consequences, at the Los Angeles Olympics.

Mehrunnisa, better known as Empress Nur Jahan, comes into Jahangir's harem as his twentieth and last wife. Almost from the beginning of her royal life she fits none of the established norms of womanhood in seventeenth-century India.

Mehrunnisa is the first woman Jahangir marries for love, at the "old" age of thirty-four. He loves her so deeply that he eventually transfers his powers of sovereignty to her.

Power and wealth do not come easily to Mehrunnisa -- she has to fight for them. She has a formidable rival in the imperial harem, Empress Jagat Gosini, who has schemed and plotted against Mehrunnisa from early on. Mehrunnisa's problems do not just lie within the harem walls, but at court, too, as she battles powerful ministers for supremacy. These ministers, who have long had Emperor Jahangir's confidence and trust, consider Mehrunnisa a mere woman who cannot have a voice in the outside world.

The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker.