Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?

When I was a girl, I was always in the kitchen, trailing behind my grandmother, eager to put my hands in whatever she preparing to cook. As I got older, the kitchen became my haven. I loved to turn out pies, cakes, and cookies. As a teenager, I discovered that vanilla and other extracts contained alcohol, so the rule became a teaspoon for the batter and two tablespoons for me. Pretty soon I was buying extracts in the large economy-size.