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Baking at Home: Ritual, Creativity, and Sweet Treats with Victoria Granof
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What if baking isn’t about perfection — but about paying attention?
In this week’s episode, we sit down with the brilliant Victoria Granof to talk about baking as ritual, instinct, creativity, and care.
From working alongside Anthony Bourdain and Snoop Dogg to cooking for Ruth Reichl in her home, Victoria brings a lifetime of wisdom and experience as a culinary creative, legendary food stylist, mentor, and coach.
A James Beard Award finalist and one of Cherry Bombe’s 100 most inspiring women in food, Victoria shares how baking can be both grounding and transformative, whether you’re baking as an act of service for those in need or making shortbread cookies in your home kitchen.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
- The influences and cookbooks that have shaped Victoria’s culinary life
- How ritual, full moons, and community come together in her monthly Substack gathering, Be Kneady
- What decades of food styling have taught her about risk and instinct
If you’ve ever wanted to bake with more confidence, more curiosity, and more meaning, this conversation will change the way you think about what happens in your oven.
Press play now and rediscover the joy of baking at home!
(Photo of Victoria Granof by Louise Hagger)
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Links:
Victoria Granof’s Substack: Delicious Tangents, where she hosts her “Be Kneady” monthly gatherings, you can also follow her on Instagram, and find more about her here, or sign up to work with her 1:1.
Check out Victoria’s gorgeous book: Sicily, My Sweet – Love Notes to an Island, with Recipes for Cakes, Cookies, Puddings, and Preserves.
Cookbooks Victoria referenced: Marcella Hazan’s Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking, The Joy of Cooking, Maida Heatter’s cookbooks, Rose Levy Berenbaum’s baking books, and Carol Field’s The Italian Baker.
Silver dollar pancake recipe from Betty Crocker (the recipe Victoria or