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The Best All-Time Cookbooks

The Best All-Time Cookbooks. For Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, International Home Cooking Day and Christmas – these cookbooks are (or soon will be) classics for …

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Bread Making Ingredients, What’s in a Loaf?

Fresh bread is a supremely satisfying food. The following is a list of the basic ingredients that interplay to build a wholesome loaf.

Updated on August 16, 2026April 29, 2021Baking Tips

High-Altitude Baking Adjustments

High-altitude baking adjustments for oven temp, sugar, liquid, flour & leavening — your complete corrections chart for 3,000+ ft.

Updated on August 17, 2026January 6, 2021Baking Tips

Why Did My Cake Sink in the Middle?

Three elements combine to keep your cakes from falling. Find out how to adjust your recipe to produce perfect, domed layers.

Hi, I’m Don

Don Herman

Don started baking and cooking at ten years old, when his mom went back to work and left notes on the stove instead of standing over it herself. Those notes turned into a real education in down-home cooking — the kind you learn by doing, not by watching a screen.

These days, Don's a home baker who loves to experiment, especially with what it takes to make a recipe actually work at 6,000 feet in Denver, Colorado. He's also a traveler, and wherever he ends up, he comes home with a new recipe worth figuring out — the more intriguing, the better.