Some people think that dessert may only be eaten after finishing the main dishes devoid of refined sugar. These people may even call dessert the most dispensable part of a meal. [shudders] However, if you're anything like me you know that dessert is the most important part of a meal, if not nutritionally (okay, definitely not nutritionally) then psychologically. Anything that comes before dessert may be tasty, but by the nature of not being dessert is also a barrier to the ice cream sundae or chocolate layer cake that eagerly awaits prodding from your dessert spoon. Dorie Greenspan might know what I'm talking about—otherwise I don't think she would've written Baking: From My Home to Yours, a bible of all...
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