How To Tell If Your Butter Is Creamed Correctly
To make the most delicious baked goods, you need to be creaming your butter properly -- here's how to tell when you've done it the right way.
Read MoreStef Ferrari is a three-time Emmy-winning, James Beard Award-nominated producer on the PBS docuseries "The Migrant Kitchen." She served as senior editor at Life & Thyme and is the author/co-author of several books, including "Ice Cream Adventures," Aarón Sánchez's "Where I Come From, A Woman's Place," and the forthcoming "Stuzzichini: The Art of the Italian Snack, with Little, Brown/Voracious." Stef also works as an illustrator and cartoonist.
Stef attended the Lorenzo de Medici Institute in Florence to study Italian history and culture.
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