Pro Baking Tips for People Who Suck At Baking

Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven

Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones

Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Did ya’ll go through the bread baking frenzy at the beginning of the pandemic like we did? What we found is that we need some serious baking help!

In this episode, we chat with one of our FAVORITE BAKERS EVER, Vallery Lomas, about how she made her way from being a full time lawyer, to a food blogger, to the first black winner of The Great American Baking Show, to an author of a beautiful book all about baking! Vallery gives us MANY tips and tricks to make our time in the kitchen painless and fulfilling and her most important advice, “Practice bakes perfect!”

In This Episode We’ll Cover:

Vallery’s journey from lawyer to food blogger to author
How Vallery’s book writing experience was very cathartic and cleansing
FOOD SCIENCE!
Having a special moment with Ayesha Curry!
Good premade swaps for when we don’t have time & MORE

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:03.0	Hi, I'm Wendy.
0:04.1	And I'm Jess and you're listening to the Food Heaven Podcast.
0:07.0	Your online resource for inclusive and accessible wellness.
0:20.6	Welcome back to another episode, y'all.
0:22.8	We are thrilled to have our girl Valerie Lomas on the podcast today.
0:27.3	She's the author of the new baking cookbook, Life is What You Bake It.
0:32.8	She's also the first black winner of the great American baking show.
0:38.4	Unfortunately, only one episode aired because one of the judges was accused of
0:43.1	sexual misconduct. ABC ended up canceling the show.
0:47.1	And so as a result, Valerie didn't win any prize or publicity.
0:51.4	She was part of the collateral damage that resulted.
0:53.7	However, once her story got out, it really opened the door for so many opportunities,
0:58.5	including some of the recipe writing that she does for the Food Network,
1:02.0	for the New York Times.
1:03.7	She has this amazing cookbook and we are just so excited, honored, thrilled to share her with you all today.
1:13.6	And she's going to be giving us all of her tips and tricks for excelling at baking.
1:19.5	Yeah, she's also always on different television networks.
1:23.1	We're like big network shows coming on and talking about baking.
1:26.5	So she was amazing.
1:29.1	One of my favorite guests that we've had.
1:31.0	And what I love about her is that she was very good with tips.
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