Real vanilla beans are what really do the trick when making creme brulee and ice cream. The flavor is so much deeper and it's great to be able to see those little black seeds in each spoonful.
Jennifer has been a cartoonist since an early age, augmenting her formal education with classes at RISD and MassArt. She wrote a comic strip for her college newspaper, and has since self-published that collection and an illustrated glossary of food for children.