Signing at Omnivore Books in San Francisco, September 21st from 6-7

Tues. Sept. 21 • My Life from Scratch: A Sweet Journey of Starting Over, One Cake at a Time • Gesine Bullock-Prado • 6-7 p.m.Bullock-Prado recounts the joys and heartbreaks of running her own patisserie in Montpelier, Vermont. Having fled the soul-sucking routine in Los Angeles with her husband, Ray, for the simpler pleasures of a small town near the Green Mountains, the author opened her own bake shop, Gesine Confectionary, in 2004, mostly on the fame of the macaroons she refashioned from...