Tanya Bush – författare

For fans of Nora Ephron and Nigel Slater, this hybrid memoir and cookbook brings together over fifty inventive baking recipes with a lyrical coming-of-age story about desire and dessert. Perfect for home cooks, lovers of literature, and anyone who finds comfort in the kitchen.As featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker,The Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, Cherry Bombe, Cultured Mag, and more. Named a Best Cookbook of Winter 2026 by Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, and Epicurious.“Beautiful—smart, funny and effortlessly lyrical.” —Ruby Tandoh, bestselling author of Cook As You Are“This is an entirely different kind of cookbook, one that makes you want to curl up and read cover to cover. I loved it.”—Sohla El-Waylly, James Beard Award winner and author of the bestselling cookbook Start HereTanya Bush is adrift in the uncertainty of her early twenties—unemployed, uninspired, and stuck in a long-term relationship that's lost its spark. One day, just to do something, she decides to bake a cake. It's gooey in the center, woefully underbaked, an absolute disaster—but it also reminds her of the pleasures of baking: sugar crystals under her fingernails, flour in her hair, and the hard-earned satisfaction of following the steps of a recipe to the end.Over the course of a year, Tanya embarks on a journey that carries her from her tiny apartment to the sunlit kitchens of an Italian agriturismo to the basement of a bustling Brooklyn bakery, where she rediscovers her appetite for pleasure, indulgence, and meaningful work.A culinary memoir and love story, interwoven with over fifty innovative and approachable baking recipes, Will This Make You Happy is for readers and bakers looking for something messier, more experimental, and honest than the typical aspirational cookbook.

Cake Zine’s fifth issue, Candy Land, unwraps candy’s connections to the literal and metaphorical land. It’s ninety-six pages of essays,recipes, fiction, and art, including:• Conversations with the doomsday preppers prioritizing pleasure at the end of the world by Amy Rose Spiegel• An essay by Leslie Jamison on building candy houses to steer her daughter away from the wild woods of restriction. • An exploration of raver kandi culture in late stage EDM by Simon Wu • A reflection on how climate change is impacting farming for cacao, grapes, and other fruits by eco futurist Lily ConsueloSaporta Tagiuri• An interview with flavor scientist Dr. Arielle Johnson on the scientific reasons behind our blue raspberry cravings byDominique Evans  • Recipes for dirt ‘n’ worms tiramisu, crunchy alegría, and crystalline kohakutou by Zoe Denenberg, Fabián von HauskeValtierra, and Rie McClenny• Sweet and surreal fiction by Sanaë Lemoine, Puloma Ghosh, and Celina Baljeet Basra• A timeline of the many iterations of Candy Land (the iconic board game, not the magazine) and how these changes mirrorreal world events by Elaine Mao• Plus a reflection on growing up in Hershey’s corporate candy town, a dissection of the contemporary tanghulu trendbeyond TikTok, a brief but insidious history of banana candy, a dumpster diving trip for Theo’s chocolate in the gentrifyingPacific Northwest, an ode to aspartame, and more.