Friendship forged in frosting

A shared love of creating cakes secures A bond between devoted baker Hector Wong and his famed mentor, Rose Levy Beranbaum

By Joleen Oshiro

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jan 23, 2013

~~<p>This is a story of a friendship cultivated over cake. Not as in, "Let's talk over coffee and cake," but rather, "Did the yeast eat up all the sugar in my panettone?"</p>
<p>That panettone, or Italian Christmas cake, was a baking project in 2006 of Hawaii resident Hector Wong, an information technology specialist who posted his inquiry on the blog of Rose Levy Beranbaum, an award-winning author of nine baking cookbooks who lives in New York City and rural New Jersey.</p>
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This is a story of a friendship cultivated over cake. Not as in, "Let's talk over coffee and cake," but rather, "Did the yeast eat up all the sugar in my panettone?"

That panettone, or Italian Christmas cake, was a baking project in 2006 of Hawaii resident Hector Wong, an information technology specialist who posted his inquiry on the blog of Rose Levy Beranbaum, an award-winning author of nine baking cookbooks who lives in New York City and rural New Jersey. Login for more...