Will This Make You Happy: Stories & Recipes From A Year of Baking
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A professional pastry chef who understands the sensory pleasures of home baking, Tanya Bush offers a collection of more than fifty uncommon recipes interlaced with personal essays that reflect her growth as a baker.
Bush, who bakes at Little Egg in Brooklyn, doesn't innovate for shock value. She is interested in connections between ingredients that prompt recognition rather than surprise: combinations that make you nod and think, yes, I see that.
Olive oil molasses ginger cookies supplement fresh and crystallized ginger with a touch of cayenne. Brown butter madeleines include buckwheat flour, maple syrup, and cinnamon. A peanut brittle finds unexpected depth from fish sauce, and stone fruit shortcakes arrive with mint cream
The essays move through professional and personal growth with honesty and immediacy, conjuring the different kitchens in which Bush has worked and the difficult transitions that shaped her.
Not a typical baking book, but a quietly insightful one.
Hardcover. Color photographs and illustrations throughout.
Published on March 3, 2026
