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A Treasure Trove from Cheryl Day

By: Hannah Lee Leidy

Dust off your rolling pin and dive into Cheryl Day’s Treasury of Southern Baking (Artisan 2021). Cheryl Day, the Savannah-based bakery owner, has been serving up decadent sweets since falling in love with the city in 1999 and opening Back in the Day Bakery in 2002. Day is also the co-author of The Artisanal Kitchen series (Artisan 2018) and Back in the Day Bakery Made with Love (Artisan 2015), both of which cover the sweeter side of things. Cheryl Day entered the writing process for this, her first solo project, with one goal: “There shouldn’t be a thing that the Southern baker would be craving that isn’t covered in here.” 

Readers can expect a range of classics from Day’s decades-old family recipe cards and church cookbooks, which she’s edited to fit the twenty-first century. She considers the evolving culinary world and believes that Southern cuisine should not be concrete, but rather continue to change. Yes, you’ll find biscuits and chess pie in these pages, but you’ll also be introduced to roasted jalapeño corn sticks, rum raisin milk punch cake, and more than thirty pies (Day’s favorite kind of dessert). 

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Date Published: 02.03.22
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About The Author

Hannah Lee Leidy

Hannah Lee Leidy is a food writer and editor based in the Carolinas. She is currently the digital content editor for Our State magazine, a position she came into following her time at The Local Palate. Her contributions have appeared in Condé Nast Traveler, Bon Appétit, Epicurious, Culture, and Eater. She’s spent time working in restaurants in both front and back of house positions, doing everything from burning gateaux to expediting to shaking a Manhattan (don’t worry, this only happened once). An avid curd nerd, her favorite beat is reporting on boutique cheese makers; she’ll sniff out every creamery near and far whenever traveling. When not parenting a Bernese mountain pup named Ava, you’ll find her running or working on her lamination technique.

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