Bodega Bakes: Recipes for Sweets and Treats Inspired by My Corner Store (Paola Velez) *Signed* Robert Laffont as well as a few

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Bodega Bakes: Recipes for Sweets and Treats Inspired by My Corner Store (Paola Velez) *Signed* Robert Laffont as well as a fewSigned bookplate mounted inside! Growing up in the Bronx, Paola Velezs happy place was the bodega, a unique world full of color and flavor where the shelves were stocked with everything from M&Ms to Muenster cheese to majarete (Caribbean corn pudding)and, of course, its own cat (IYKYK). Before she was the James Beardnominated chef, Cherry Bombe cover girl, social media darling, and cofounder of the grassroots social action network, Bakers Against