Ellen Spear

Our headliner this week is film director James Ivory.

These are wonderful with coffee or hot chocolate on a sunny Sunday afternoon in January. Don’t forget to look out the window as you eat them.

One of Ellen Spear’s colleagues once declared that he had the best cheesecake recipe in the universe. She agrees.

The absence of special equipment applied to one of her best recipes — a chocolate sour cream cake. Undaunted by not having cake tins close at hand, she baked the cake in two coffee cans with the ends removed.