| Acknowledgments | v | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| How to Use the Recipes in This Book | 7 | ||
| A Place to Start | 11 | ||
| The Baker in the Family | 17 | ||
| In Need of Calming | 23 | ||
| The Whole Messy Decade | 29 | ||
| An Uncalculating Science | 35 | ||
| Better with Chocolate | 41 | ||
| The Dark Horse | 47 | ||
| A Brood of Seven | 51 | ||
| La Boule Miche | 59 | ||
| A Strange Sort of Coming of Age | 65 | ||
| The Hardball Stage | 71 | ||
| A Personal Chronology in Christmas Cookies | 77 | ||
| The Right Answer to Everything | 85 | ||
| Quite that Magnificent | 91 | ||
| What France Would Taste Like | 97 | ||
| The Best of All Possible Worlds | 103 | ||
| High Points | 111 | ||
| Heaven | 119 | ||
| 9:00 A.M. Sunday | 127 | ||
| Italian Grotto Eggs | 135 | ||
| The Mottling | 141 | ||
| Whatever You Love, You Are | 153 | ||
| Summer of Change | 161 | ||
| Pretty Perfect | 171 | ||
| Promise to Share | 177 | ||
| With Cream on Top | 183 | ||
| Happiness | 189 | ||
| Baby Steps | 195 | ||
| Like Wildflowers | 207 | ||
| Delicious in Its Way | 213 | ||
| Rough Going | 219 | ||
| Bonus Points | 223 | ||
| Herbivores Only | 229 | ||
| Special Game | 235 | ||
| The Diamonds | 241 | ||
| Sugarhouse | 249 | ||
| The Change Thing | 253 | ||
| Bonne Femme | 259 | ||
| So Much Better | 267 | ||
| A Big Deal | 275 | ||
| Freeze Frame | 281 | ||
| Pickling Plant | 287 | ||
| So Easy | 293 | ||
| I Have Learned Not to Worry | 299 | ||
| Winning Hearts and Minds | 309 | ||
| Recipe Index | 315 |