The Award Winning Eater has an award winning godmother and it's her birthday. Her hard-earned hardware--an Emmy Award for television news production--is impressive. Luckily for her godson, she brings her Emmy-winning attention to detail and aesthetic sensibility to the fabulous food that comes out of her oven. She's been baking for me since my first birthday, creating treats that I enjoy over and over again as I recall some of our family's happiest occasions.
The birthday girl in a "candid" with her handiwork--a plate of oatmeal chocolate chunk cookies and trays of chocolate and impossibly moist vanilla almond cupcakes sporting holiday-appropriate summer fruits on July 4th, 2009.
She is a grand master of the Toll House recipe chocolate chip cookie. Her drive for excellence in all things usually compels her to explain that "this batch is not my best effort," as you reach for the perfect cookie atop the perfect stack of other perfect cookies heaped on the tasteful plate she's selected. The two dozen cookies she brought us recently did not survive the evening in this good eater's house (I shudder to think how many weight watchers points that little cookie bender would have cost me).
She lovingly bakes loaves of banana-nut bread for me every Thanksgiving. I don't remember when she started this tradition between us, but I can't imagine a Turkey-day breakfast without eating at least half a loaf. I value each morsel all the more because I know how many other things she could have been doing with the time it took to make the breads on the eve before she hosts yet another picture-perfect family Thanksgiving meal with my uncle and cousin.
As someone who lives to eat and eats to live, I am so grateful that my godmother has shown me such affection through confection. It is one of the many great qualities that make me so happy to celebrate another year in the life of my Auntie Row. Happy Birthday.
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