Good news, sweet tooths: Jessie Pearl Hairston and her rich baked goods return to the Maplewood Farmers’ Market today. Look for her pound cakes, lemon bars, zebra cake (cream cheese center with cake batter on top and bottom), sweet potato pies (“mini Pearls,” she calls them), and much more on the last Wednesday of each month. Hairston had to take a few years off from baking because of illness, but now, she said, “I feel better than a hot pig in cold poop.”
Photo by Allyson Mace
This article appears in Jul 1-31, 2009.