Bodega Bakes: Recipes for Sweets and Treats Inspired by My Corner Store Socks and 5 SPICES

and 5 SPICES

and the distractingly handsome (and grumpy) Hugo Reese

for thirty days

researcher and small business owner

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Bodega Bakes: Recipes for Sweets and Treats Inspired by My Corner Store Socks and 5 SPICESA baking book bursting with joy that will have you hightailing it to the oven and planning a trip to your local corner store. Growing up in the Bronx, Paola Velez's happy place was the bodega, a unique world full of color and flavor where the shelves were stocked with everything from M&M's to Muenster cheese to majarete (Caribbean corn pudding) and, of course, its own cat (IYKYK). Before she was a James Beard nominated chef, Cherry Bombe cover girl,