How's the Book Going, Sarah?
I’m at enough of a milestone with the new book that a progress update is in order! Full interior title spread and table of contents! The book is written! It...
The Naming Ceremony
The weather’s slowly warming up in Chicago, so I spent a week building a new levain culture. I used the technique we lay out in Let’s Make Bread! and built...
Shikaakwa
It’s ramps season!! ^_^ We found a lovely bunch of them at the Logan Square Farmers Market popup in Unity Park this weekend. I knew it was ramps season...
Recipe: The Universal Condiment
Niles used to make this delicious sauce regularly. I love it so much, and jokingly call it “The Baranowski Universal Condiment” because I put it on just...
C2E2 2025, and excavating some old artwork
My first time tabling at C2E2 was incredible. I talked to so many wonderful and amazing people! I sold many books and prints! I found countless new artists...
Magnolia's, St. Louis, 1999.
This is a little more personal than I usually write about, but this memory has been on my mind a lot in recent weeks. My first few years out of college,...
Recipe: Sourdough Discard Tortillas!
While I was working on Let’s Make Bread with Ken Forkish, I baked my way through every single recipe in the book. Mostly because I wanted to get the drawings...
What I've Been Up To
Travel and public speaking and book work and family visits! Plus, meeting some literary heroes, and being too loopy to manage to meet others! I literally...
The Editing Process
Apologies for the delay in correspondence! At least the Young Prince is happy I know no one’s keeping score, but I really do want to update these emails...
More about Belugas
I figured I should write a little more about the best part of my birthday this year, our visit with the Shedd Aquarium’s beluga whales. IT WAS SO GOOD....
Birthday Treats!
It was my birthday last week! I have become a big fan of finding creative ways to treat myself for birthdays. I am also a big fan of experiences as opposed...
Recipe: Sarah's Banaynay Bars
So I really have no excuse for sharing a frozen recipe in mid February, except that I love these bars enough that I make them year round, and yes, there are...
Recipe: Homemade Mayonnaise!
So maybe you followed the original “I Think You’re Sauceome” comic back in the day! If you didn’t, it was an autobio webcomic I did from about 2010 to 2015...
Hourly Comic Day 2025!
Happy (belated) Hourly Comic Day! If you’re unfamiliar, February 1 is Hourly Comic Day, an informal holiday where people draw a short comic for every hour...
The New Book!!
So I’ve been working on a new book!! It will be called Let’s Make Cocktails! This whole Let’s Make thing is shaping up into a whole series, which still blows...
The Best Thing I Ate
For the past several months I’ve been working on researching and writing my next comic book cookbook. (I promise the next newsletter will be an update on the...
So it's come to this: a newsletter
My partner Niles has been bugging me to start a newsletter for a few years now. I’ve put it off, probably for silly reasons. But now it’s January of 2025,...