in San Francisco!  i brought a handful of my take on ROSE’S heavenly CAKES: Hungarian Jancsi Torta (page 279), to my thanksgiving trip to San Francisco.

i spent time re-connecting with 7 high school friends, and presented these takes at dinner hosted by one of us.  i think this picture of my classmate Mary is magical:

and here part of the school gang:

the hungarian jancsi torta survived perfectly at room temperature in the car, while doing black friday shopping at the san francisco malls.  it was a cold morning indeed, so when i served the cake, i heated them up for 15 seconds in the microwave.