Cake: the glue that binds our family

Made with pity, with guilt, with love. Growing up, Sheila Hayman discovered that baking was a sure way to win hearts“I might as well be comfortable,” says my father, dragging the Chippendale dining chair into the tiny, none-too-clean kitchen. These days, the fashion is for expanding the kitchen so that everybody can hang out in it all day, watching somebody else at work. But this was back in the 1970s and my mother came from a generation for whom the heart of the home was a