Happy Easter!

We wish we could say we made these, but they're by Natasha Collins, UK-based baker extraordinaire, otherwise known as neviepiecakes on flickr, and as the author of this great new blog: amelie's house. Both sites are worth combing through. For example, not to mix holidays but check out these amazing cookies she made for World Book Day:

And we're quite partial to this Tailor of Gloucester christening cake. Obviously. Look at his little crossed feet!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We hope you're all having a wonderful, food-filled weekend. One of our favourite parts of Thanksgiving is pie. We love pie. Our staff pies this year include pumpkin with pecan and brown sugar topping - if it's good we'll post the recipe... for next year... Anyway, in honour of the holiday, of pie, and of Charelli's Dutch roots, we thought we'd post this lovely painting by early Dutch still life painter, Willem Claesz (b.1594 ): Breakfast Table with Blackberry Pie.

Here's a recipe for a contemporary version of (the apparently very traditional) blackberry pie. For more visual pie inspiration, you can browse the Pie Club group on Flickr. And then there's always this, the only worthwhile pie chart ever created...

Happy Pie Day!