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#2 - Failure, Tenacity, and Acceptance

A grapefruit cake fail (and recovery!), "rice-washing" your cocktails, and "Effortless Rest".

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Leslie Irish Evans
Feb 24, 2023
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My friends, I am positively beleaguered. All I wanted was a cake. A grapefruit cake. Instead I got my ass kicked. By That Goddamn Grapefruit Cake.

I found myself in possession of some grapefruit, and had guests coming over so I decided I would make a grapefruit cake. I have a lot of experience making cake. I recently worked at a bakery for over a year…

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