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On the Road

The Marathoners These readers kept on cooking on.…

Christina Tricia Kim
Larson Blevins Capella
Seattle Beaver Falls, PA Atlanta
Christina Larson is a Tricia Blevins After finding the 50 Toasts 50
professional baker, so she was (@triciagladblev) baked 50 insert in our April 2015 issue,
well prepared to make every her way through all Kim Capella, a biochemist at TOASTS
Cupcakes
recipe in A Year of Chocolate 50 Cupcakes in our the CDC, was inspired to make
during 2015. She stuck to May 2015 issue—and them all (@50toasts). For Kim,
her deadlines: “Once, it was managed to lose 100 pounds visually replicating each toast
RYAN DAUSCH LEVI BROWN
11:30 p.m. on the last day of the month along the way! “Wednesday is was just as important as eating
and I was trying to finish the recipe to weigh-in day, then it’s baking it. “I already really liked toast,”
post it in time.” Find her on Instagram day,” she says. “So I have the she says, “but there’s something
(@christina.larson)—her pics are sweet. whole week to work it off!” so pretty about it on Instagram.”

Pen Pals Each month we get tons of letters and e-mails

from our readers. Here are a few recent favorites.

Jennifer Evonne Carolyn
Thomas Morken Bradley
Brandon, FL Spring Grove, MN Las Cruces, NM
Last October, this fourth-grade teacher at After serving as a crossing guard for 20 years When we first heard from Carolyn Bradley,
Brooker Elementary School challenged her in Spring Grove, MN, Evonne Morken was she wasn’t our biggest fan: She was angry
students to take our pumpkin IQ quiz and already a local celebrity. But she gained about the editor’s letter in our movie-themed
then write to tell us what they learned. even more street cred when we wrote about issue. Our editor responded with a
We got a stack of funny, smart, colorful her fruitcake obsession. We asked readers handwritten letter (and free movie tickets),
letters, so every person on our staff to send unwanted fruitcakes her way, and and Carolyn became one of our best
adopted a student as a pen pal—and we Evonne ended up with enough for a year— pen pals. She sent us a huge care package
still keep in touch! plus lots of new friends: “I now have pen pals of treats from New Mexico, and we’ve been
all over the place,” she says. Including us. friends ever since!
In the Know
JEFF HARRIS

Evonne has
this page
She wants
your fruitcake.
Let Her Eat Cake! framed in her
Evonne Morken has heard plenty of wisecracks about fruitcake—and she disagrees with all Thanks for the
of them. In fact, the 84-year-old Spring Grove, MN, resident loves fruitcake so much, she wrote
to her local newspaper last December asking neighbors to send their unwanted ones her way.
Evonne received 23 loaves, which she froze and ate one by one until she ran out in October.
This holiday season, we figured we’d help her restock, with your assistance: Ship your fruitcake to living room!
Food Network Magazine, Project Fruitcake, 300 West 57th St., 35th Floor, New York, NY 10019. goodies, Carolyn!
We’ll forward Evonne enough to last her through all of 2016 and donate the rest to Food Bank NYC.
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