Discover the Unexpected Joy and Secrets Hidden Within Tanya Bush’s Year of Baking
The book begins in the winter of the pandemic when Bush, having recently lost her job and rapidly sinking into depression, takes up baking to fill the time and busy her hands. After a few misses, when readers who bake will be whispering, repeatedly, to just stop opening the oven door, she finally has a win. This is simple, but revelatory: a banana bread that causes “that stomach-swooping, hands-tingling elation… I feel a sense of disorienting possibility, like I am slowly waking up from a nap when I hadn’t ever known I was asleep.” She sees there may be a path here for her, but culinary school is too expensive. Still, Bush learns what she can online, builds skills, and practices daily.
