When
I was in Brooklyn a few months back doing a booksigning with the lovely
folks from The Brooklyn
Kitchen, a friendly woman came up to me bearing a box of
treats from her bakery. I don’t like to eat in front of people, because,
frankly, no one wants to meet up with an author while he is shoving
pastries in his mouth. And in this day and age of people wanting pictures,
I’ve learned that absolutely no one looks good when they’ve got a mouth
full of food. And I have a hunch that there are a bunch of photos tagged
with my name on them, around the internet, that will prove that.
 However
as soon as everyone had left, and no one was looking (especially those
with cameras) I tore open the box, which was packed with treats from Ovenly,
a bakery in Brooklyn. Although everything inside looked good, I plucked
out the deepest, darkest square of whatever, and unwrapped it.
Since
no one was looking, I dove right in. (Okay, I was planning on offering
the others on the staff some tastes, but figured since I was the guest,
they’d understand – I hope – that I was going to help myself first.) And
let me tell you, that was one excellent brownie. It wasn’t overly sweet,
or cakey. Instead, it was a moist square loaded with very intense
chocolate flavor. When I saw the recipe in their book, I learned their
sweet (and salty) secrets.
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