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jillbcooks 4/21/2009 9:34:00 AM
There are few things that I love with the same burning intensity that I love cake. One of those things is the internet. I am rarely without my laptop, and, if my cholesterol level would allow, I would try very hard to be without cake just as rarely. Alas, but I have found a way to have my (virtual) cake online.
I have a few favorite blogs that are dedicated solely to cake. One is called Pictures of Cake, and it charts the adventures of an ambitious ba...
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cakes, blogs, decorating
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AndiatBettyCrocker 2/14/2008 1:42:00 PM
On my way to work today I was listening to a public radio story about Saint Valentine, a holy priest of Rome. He performed wedding ceremonies for young couples in secret because Emperor Claudius II had cancelled all engagements and weddings. Claudius was having a hard time getting young men to enlist in the military and he believed it was because the men didn't want to leave their loved ones, when it fact it was due to bloody and unpopular battles. Saint Valentine was jailed for his actions and fell in love with the jailer's daughter before he was beheaded on February 14, 270 A.D. Story has it that he signed his farewell message to her: "From Your Valentine."How sw...
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baking, cakes, chocolate, Valentine's Day