The Particular [Emotion] of Lemon Cake

In Aimee Bender’s new novel, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, nine-year-old Rose Edelstein discovers that she can taste emotions in food, like the particular sadness folded into her mother’s lemon cake.

Perhaps if we concentrated very, very hard, we could do the same. So here’s a recipe for lemon cake from Joël Robuchon’s The Complete Robuchon.

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